Originally Posted by
DaveW
Can you post an example?
I've had razors that had cracks in them that I had to remove that took about an extra ten minutes because I had to grind them perpendicular on a medium carborundum stone.
If I had hours, I could literally hone away the blade of any razor - perhaps in 20 minutes.
One of the reasons I like to use a slurried oilstone to set the bevel is because it is not sensitive to direction, it doesn't require that firm of pressure, and the particles are large but without being damaging to an edge.
Hypothetically, the worst case scenario I could make up would have me honing 3 millimeters off of a razor and then setting the bevel on a soft arkansas (which is more coarse than the stone I showed in another thread here about oilstones or jaspers or something).