Random noob questions that will boost me

1.When they talk about honing with xxx grit sandpaper, do they mean the sandpaper you can get at a Home Depot?

2.When honing, do you keep the angle exact, or do you minutely roll towards the blade as you get to the end of the stroke?

3.Do I keep the blade angle the same when honing on 4000 grit, as I do when honing at 8000 grit? or do I increase the angle (make more perpendicular(slightly)) when moving to the finer grit?

4.Is this google video a good example of how someone experienced hones? or is the camera making him show off?
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...straight+razor

1) I don't know anyone who uses 8000 grit sandpaper for honing. For that matter I don't think (correct me if I'm wrong) that it exists. We are talking about hone grits. Chec out this link. http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.a...072,43071&ap=1

2) The blade angle should always be the same, especially when just learning the process.

3) In both cases you either just keep the angle at 30 or make it perpendicular and use the X-pattern (there is a video demonstrating it in the help files, thank you Nenad)

4) That link leads to an e-bay vendor, I was too lazy to search for a video lol.

I edited my typo in #1 and fixed the link to the video.

We're talking hone grits, not sandpaper grits, and for the most part we're using japanese grit numbers not american grit numbers. Handamerican does make PSA papers in extremely high grits that are well suited for honing, but that's not generally what we're talking about.

I'm not sure what you mean by "roll towards the blade". The blade lays flat on the hone through the entire stroke, with spine and edge touching the hone. Some guys lay the blade straight across the hone, some lay the blade on the hone with the heel leading the toe by 30 degrees or so.

I followed your link but didn't see any video. If you really want to see a video of how someone experienced hones, you should pick up Lynn's DVD. It's not that expensive, and has very good coverage of honing, stropping, prep, shaving, and also has an entire chapter of razor porn.

1. Sandpaper will likely only do for heavy restoration and not so well for final edge creation.

2. KEEP THE SPINE ON THE HONE AT ALL TIMES!

3. I keep the angle the same, but you make me think about how changing the angle might change the edge.

4. That's about right, but he's pretty quick at the end there. If I went that fast I'd ruin the edge I just created.

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Originally Posted by FiReSTaRT

1) I don't know anyone who uses 8000 grit sandpaper for honing. For that matter I don't think (correct me if I'm wrong) that it exists.

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You are wrong, it think 3M makes it in up to .5 micron grit...

Nenad