Thread: noob, Honing

The bevel angle for a razor's edge is considerably smaller than the bevel angle for a knife's edge. The razor's bevel angle is set by the thickness of the spine -- it needs to be sharpened and honed as flat as possible

If you can set the Spyderco sharpeners side-by-side (as in a picture above), they might work.

I've used sandpaper (the "scary sharp" system) successfully -- 1000 grit, 2000 grit, 5 micron, followed by chromium oxide stropping. IMHO, the 5 micron paper did _not_ give me a "shave-ready" edge before the CrOX stropping.

I finally gave in to "hone acquisition disorder", and bought a Norton 4K/8K waterstone.

Charles