Thread: Belt Finishing

I would say go for it. You have the tools and want to experiment. Worst thing that can happen is it will fail.
Please let us know how it goes and how the razor shaves. I am really curious.

RIP Ducklings.

As said, do not do this. The blade will be ruined.
We are talking milliseconds on a grinder to destroy a blade.

I did a lot of repairs, a while back when a new guy at a razor shop started referring customers to a local cutlery shop. They buffed on a diamond leather belt.

Fortunately, he was light handed. The bevels were shiny, the edges jagged, under magnification. It appeared a burr was formed and broken off.

For reference, Chrome Oxide on a leather strop will remove all the stria at the edge in about 200 laps, another 200 it will remove most of the stria from the bevel of a 12k edge.

If you are light handed, and get an edge, it may fail after hand stropping on a leather strop. The paste does not matter, as said. A spinning leather belt is going too fast, and aggressive. The actual edge of a razor is much thinner than most people think, you need about 1,000 x to see it.

Double Ducks are nice shavers, and few survive due to cell rot, If they are nice don’t waste them, If they are cell rot razors, they will not hold an edge any way.

Post a Pic.

It will probably be the death of your blade, but if you want to experiment, use a junk blade. The world is full of no name garbage blades that you can mess around with. Buy a six dollar blade from Pakistan and put the belt to it. Let us know how it plays out.

Nothing quite so boldly foolish as seeking the experienced advice of several forum members then going ahead and doing the ill-advised act anyways.

Good luck with your doomed voyage, but I predict we won't get any obits on your steely victims.

I've seen a few people insist on using belts to hone straights. So far none have come back to report on their findings. I'm legitimately curious how these experiments turn out.

Seems to me that it's possible. But I don't think there would be any advantage to doing it that way. It's easy enough to just hone a razor using conventional methods. You would have to keep the spine on the belt at the same time in order for the edge angle to remain as designed. Go for it! And then let us know how it turned out. Make sure the blade doesn't get caught up in a belt. It can turn into a missile quite easily. And as was mentioned you have to watch overheating.

I am guessing the OP must have killed at least 2 Dubl Ducks given how stubbornly he continued to ignore all the same advice against belt assisted honing.

--OR--

The more likely possibility, given the use of Dubl Ducks as guinea pigs in such a poorly concocted scheme, is simply a drive-by trolling.

Originally Posted by Speedster

I am guessing the OP must have killed at least 2 Dubl Ducks given how stubbornly he continued to ignore all the same advice against belt assisted honing.

--OR--

The more likely possibility, given the use of Dubl Ducks as guinea pigs in such a poorly concocted scheme, is simply a drive-by trolling.

It seemed to me like trolling from the beginning thus my answer was what it was to his question.