Thread: barber hone grit equivalent

I suspect the problem might be the correction of the smiling blade. If the razor was made with a smiling spine, then you might have problems.

If the spine is straight, the blade was smily because of uneven hone wear or some other reason, I really can't think of any other ones honestly. Anyway, uneven hone wear makes the razor harder to hone, but not impossible. Sounds like thats the problem to me, either smiling spine or uneven hone wear.

The other problem is the way you flattened out the smile and destroyed the bevel. It takes hours to put the bevel back on sometimes when you breadknife the razor. Why is it called breadknifing anyway? Bread knives are sharp....

Your tag says az, if your in the phoenix area and want to stop by, I'll take a look at it. I'm in snobsdale.