Thread: Flattening stone on a Norton

How did you mess up the edges?

I only use the flattening stone for initial flattening, not for bevels/radii or for later flattening.

To round the edges I use 220 wet/dry paper on a flat surface, the Woodcraft granite surface plate. With thew stone flat of it's face I pull it across the sandpaper towards me while rolling the near side upwards until it is at 90deg to the sandpaper creating a small radius on the edge of the stone. I do this twice on each long edge, twice on each end then by hand take the little sharp corners off where the edges meet. No corners to nick the razor, no corners to chip on the stone either.

I think the flattening stone would be way to coarse and hard to control for this. if your radius is too large you cannot get into the heel corner of the blade. Just a slight 1/16" to 1/8" radius is used.

Tony