Thread: Honing razor with wide bevel..

Originally Posted by Dups

Not much. Maybe a little, but not significantly more. I dulled the razor on the bottom of a glass and went to town on the coticule with slurry until the razor was shaving arm hair all across the blade. The next step is where is sort of went down hill. I don't know if I'm doing too many or not enough passes with the diluted slurry.

Just use water and make 200 passes if this wont satisfies you then go head send it out. gl

Complicated unknown variables like diluting watered slurry and such are troublesome for new guys. That's why I always recommend learning on the norton 4/8k waterstone, you just hone on it, flip it and hone on it. As long as its wet you're okay and you learn more about edges than slurry consistency.

Since you like the idea of using your coticule for it all though, by all means try out what I suggested and see what happens.

Success! Got the razor to pop hair!

awesome good to hear!

You may need to add more sharpness to the edge to get a good shave, I would finish on water and test.

Now get it to shave!

A razor with a wide bevel likes to stay on the hone for a very long time!
There really is no short cut other then sheer persistence. It will get sharp ...just at a much slower rate. Keep at it!