Thread: Some Honing Gymnastics with a TI

I just sent this one back home (I will leave the TSD Member's name out he can post if he wants) but before I did, I took some snaps, as this is a classic Whoops !!! and I thought it would make for some good discussion..

Background on the razor, it came from an Online vendor which I will leave nameless, in fact it was sent as a replacement for one that was un-satisfactory in the first place... The member never honed it, he put it away after some terse e-mails back and forth...

You have to look close at the bevel to see the damage that was done to the edge








Now I used a variation of the classic "Bread-knifing" to take that out, starting at about a 60 degree angle of attack using some Japanese style honing on a DMT 325.. I dropped to 40 degrees, then 20, then 3 layers of tape on the spine..
I kept that gentle TI smile and then moved to the Chosera 1k to reset a bevel with 1 layer of tape...

IMHO It looked as though when it was honed originally, they dinged the bevel dragging it off the the edge of a hone and gave it a slight wrinkle there..
Instead of correcting it, they just continued to hone it, and made it worse

Anyway here is the corrected edge






I thought maybe we could discuss some bevel correction techniques here