I soak mine for the recommended five minutes. That seems to be enough. When I'm honing I dribble water on them with my hand every 20 laps or so.
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I soak mine for the recommended five minutes. That seems to be enough. When I'm honing I dribble water on them with my hand every 20 laps or so.
Ah, is that why it isn't recommended? I breadknifed my razors on the bottom of a pint glass.
What you did is commonly called "Killing the Edge" it can lightly be done on a Glass or Bottle, a stone, or even a Thumbnail, Breadnifing in general is used for extreme re-contouring of chips and frowns, and can be done in stages... It is however an extreme solution to an extreme problem, and not advisable in any other case..
Killing the very edge can be a useful tool, many think it is unnecessary, you are going to have to decide
It's just not recommended for beginners, mainly because it's used when it isn't needed. The reason being, bread knifing is used in restorations, not honing, and should only really be used to remove large chips, heavy damage, etc.
What you did wasn't breadknifing though, it's what's referred to as "killing" an edge. :tu
Oh, okay. I just killed the edge so I could start fresh to make sure that it was actually me that was seeing the bevel and getting the blade shave ready.
What's breadknifing then?
P.S. gs, I need to thank you for your videos. I used them to go from never honed anything but pocket knives to getting a really comfortable shaving edge on all my razors in a week and a half. I have tons to learn still but I feel confident that I will have no problem refreshing and repairing my razors now unless I do something completely stupid to one of them.
Here is another one too
http://straightrazorpalace.com/advan...l-setting.html
With pretty pics hehehe