Thread: Setting the bevel?

hello,

So I am basically at the stage your at i think. So here's my 2 cents. This is probably overkill too, but it really didn't make sense to me until it hit me over the head yesterday. Knowing when to progess on a stone means you have to know what "sharp" feels like on the TPT. For the longest time I honed based on numbers and just assumed that would work (plus the TPT didnt give me much feedback [everything felt the same]).

So I spent a really long time trying to feel what "sharp" actually feels like to the thumb. So now I know I am done with the 4k after the whole blade feels the same. Then I move onto the 8k. I know this is not the pyramid method, but its the only way I could get feedback from what I was doing.

So in short my advice is be confident that you know what sharp feels like to the thumb. grab a dull kitchen knife and a sharp x-acto or something with your razor sitting somewhere in the middle. And feel away.

Hope this helps.

Alan

I have never had a problem setting the bevel using the 4k side of my Norton. In fact, I am not sure I have ever really had to set a bevel in the fullest sense. All of the razors I have honed (six vintage and two new Wapis) went quite quickly, maybe 10 minutes on the 4K and 10 on the 8K, strop and go. The only one that gave me any problems at all was a vintage Genco; I had to do about 100 passes on a pasted strop on that one.