Thread: Fins etc.

I'm not one of those metalurgist honemiesters, (Mr. Parker?)

We might be moving more into theory here than reality but the bevels are the angulated section at the cutting side of the razor that meet in an edge, this edge, when honed properly begins to have a cross hatch of striations produced by the grit in honing that overlap, the overlapping sections converge into a section that gets aligned and realigned by stropping. That section is often called the "fin". I think the difference in terminology may have come from a burr in knife sharpening. It would stretch out beyond the bevel and a fin on the other hand does not. Some refer to the "fin" as simply the end of the bevel, i.e. fin (fini, finish).

In my opinion the fin may help in providing draw on a strop when you strop a razor, but I can not see a fin so I don't know.

I believe, if I remember correctly, that some people do not believe a fin exists at all and is more myth than reality.