Thread: Pacific NW / Inland NW / Western Canada - Meet Up

That actually came out way better than I hoped for

To answer the inevitable questions,,
The razor actually had 2 chips to start out with one was about 1mm deep the larger one was maybe 2mm or just a smidgen less...

The one thing you can barely hear there is when I say "You don't need to get behind the chips to fix them"... What that means is you don't have to take off all that steel... If you just get the back of the chip to barely meet the edge with the bread knifing techniques, then as you hone it in you can actually waste less steel than just honing...

I was just showing the different techniques of moving the razor at the begining... I usually use the back and forth Bread knife movement for bad chips at either 60 degrees or 45 degrees to start...

Thanks go to Nanna & deighaingeal for the video work, and helping me keep things from in front of the camera

Originally Posted by gssixgun

That actually came out way better than I hoped for

To answer the inevitable questions,,
The razor actually had 2 chips to start out with one was about 1mm deep the larger one was maybe 2mm or just a smidgen less...

The one thing you can barely hear there is when I say "You don't need to get behind the chips to fix them"... What that means is you don't have to take off all that steel... If you just get the back of the chip to barely meet the edge with the bread knifing techniques, then as you hone it in you can actually waste less steel than just honing...

I was just showing the different techniques of moving the razor at the begining... I usually use the back and forth Bread knife movement for bad chips at either 60 degrees or 45 degrees to start...

Thanks go to Nanna & deighaingeal for the video work, and helping me keep things from in front of the camera

Glen, I notice that you bread knife it with the blade on about a 45 degree angle and as you do that, you sort of slide the knife down the hone. Is there any reason for doing this over just a straight perpendicular motion, with no slide? To me it seems like by having that differing angle you would be causing more work when you do the honing (due to honing out that extra angle). Sort of an oddball double bevel type of thing.

Boy, I don't know about extra work. It took him just 6 minutes to remove that big chip and that was with passing it around for us to examine. Can't imagine it going quicker. It was my razor so I've had the pleasure of shaving with it and it was perfect. Excellent shaver.

Originally Posted by GolfNut

Boy, I don't know about extra work. It took him just 6 minutes to remove that big chip and that was with passing it around for us to examine. Can't imagine it going quicker. It was my razor so I've had the pleasure of shaving with it and it was perfect. Excellent shaver.

Heh, It's going to be many years before I'll have that kind of skill. For those of us who are just learning, and have read that you do it perpendicular, why this different method? Is it more effective?

Originally Posted by aeon

Glen, I notice that you bread knife it with the blade on about a 45 degree angle and as you do that, you sort of slide the knife down the hone. Is there any reason for doing this over just a straight perpendicular motion, with no slide? To me it seems like by having that differing angle you would be causing more work when you do the honing (due to honing out that extra angle). Sort of an oddball double bevel type of thing.

Good eye..
I started this one at 60 degrees, dropped to 45, then to 20, then to taped spine...
The 90 degree straight breadknife I rarely use, it is the most extreme for the most extreme cases... I move the blade along the plate/stone so as not to wear the plate/stone in one spot, and in my mind I am hitting fresh spots all the time...
As to the double bevel extra angle sorta thing.. LOL heck I would be happy with only a double bevel, I probably have 4 on there if you really looked close... But once that spine hits the hone everything that was done before all goes away
Remember this is a pre-bevel stage, this is restoration, "Honing" only comes after all this work, when the spine touches the hone...