Thread: difficult blade

One of my razors has a one centimeter dull spot. About 1\2 a centimeter from the toe of the blade. HHT is telling me I'm getting somewhere with the rest of the blade but that one spot will not come sharp. No bend in blade of warp that I can see. Has anyone ever encountered such a thing. If so how did you deal with it. I'm about to bread knife it and redo it again.

Originally Posted by khalu

Has anyone ever encountered such a thing. If so how did you deal with it. I'm about to bread knife it and redo it again.

Breadknifing is not a honing strategy. It's only a means of removing severe damage from a blade. I cannot imagine why you would want to do that "again," but that will not solve whatever is wrong with your blade. Is the hone reaching the steel in the bad region? Is the bevel set there?

Ron is correct don't use bread knifing or you will go to in to more trouble.
Instead try to set the bevel correctly.
Usually when someone start to hone they will miss the tip of the blade.
Because of pressure phenomena .
try this.
put your pointer finger on top of the blade(not the cutting edge lol side) and make x pattern strokes.
use that finger for pressure . see what happens.
be careful when you flip the blade your finger will come very close to cutting edge.
this may help.
gl

okay maybe bread knifing is too drastic. I'm just a little fet up with the blade. I did try putting finger on bad spot like mentioned above but no joy. I think patients on my part and fourth time is going to be the charm.

What does it look like in that spot? Did you do the marker test? I'd guess you are just not getting the bevel all the way to the edge or, if you are, there is just blunting there.

I'm trying to get a Clauss shave ready, and set the bevel at 1K, going on through a standard pyramid with 4K and 8K Nortons, then finishing on a Naniwa SS 12K. I then used .5 Micron diamond spray on wool and, after that, leather for stropping. It cuts arm hair fine, and I'll shave test it tomorrow. When I view the edge under 10X magnification, I see the tiniest little chip, almost indiscernible, in the middle of the blade.

The obvious response would be that the bevel was in fact not completely set. But when I look at that area, the steel just above the edge seems pitted or rough, and it appears possible that the steel itself is not good and that as I hone further into it I'm just revealing inferior steel for whatever reason. Has anyone seen this?