A question of vocabulary?
I was reading a Sherlock Holmes mystery that concerned, as a piece of evidence, a razor. As he traced the razor to its origins and quized the selling barber about it I was struck by some of the terminology used.
It seemed that everyone who shaved often owned at least one razor men of position seemed to often buy more.
It seems that before the shave it was expected that the razor would have to be stropped
It seemed that most guys were expected to hone their own razor frequently, what we often call a touch up.
If honing wasn't enough to give you a good edge the blade would have to be "re-set" by a barber, this sounds like a more extensive honing consisting of multiple steps.
A knife grinder could re-grind a razor if it was seriously damaged then it would be re-set and sold again.
I was just wondering if there might be some use for the term Setting the edge again. It seems like we spend a lot of time teaching guys to "hone" when really they are learning to "set" the edge then they have to learn the finishing steps or actual "honing" of the razor later. We, it seems, lump these two steps under the same nomenclature, not differentiating them enough for the newbee to grasp.