Thread: How consistent are your honing results?

Originally Posted by tonycraigo

'Teeth' reach out and grab a hair that normally wouldn't pass a HHT on a polished edge with fewer teeth.

Kees,

This is why and how edge prefence becomes a personal prefence. All things being equal, and that is a very big assumption, much discussion and money spent for high end finishers is for the last bit of finishing. There is for me a sweet spot somewhere in between aggresive and completly refined. For me it comes naturaly(pun intended) with the finish left by a Jnat or an esher. Electron Micro Pics show the teeth set by a Jnat to look wavey like the way hanging curtains form soft folds, I suspect that an Escher would look similar. On synthetic stones the edge is uniform, but teeth are more angular. I long stopped doing the HHT diagnosticaly, it just did not do it for me.
For your present style of shaving, I can understand how you would like the slightly toothier type of edge.

My hair is pretty fine and is useless for the HHT so I've never used it as a measure. As I move up through the progression I like to do a minimum of 70 laps per stone. After the 70 laps, it's just feel of when to move to the next stone. When I use the Frankonian to finish, I don't count laps at all. It's all feel. When the blade feels like it's sliding on glass, I know that it's pretty good.