Originally Posted by
mainaman
8x3" in hand works just fine to hone anything. To fix a frown in general one has to hone the toe and the heel till all the bevel is straight and contacts the hone evenly. That is the slow way of doing it, there is a faster way that requires coarse stone and lifting the spine off the hone, then bevel set just like any other razor. There is nothing special about fixing frowns, just a bunch of work on the bevel setter. except the frown is not fixed and the geometry is messed up at the from both the edge and the spine. Narrow hones are a way to dance around a problem and not addressing it. Not to mention that one has to have a separate set of hones to hone frowning razors? Not a dead horse, it is important to realize that newbies are reading those threads and what is being said can impact the learning curve in positive but also negative ways.