Thread: over honing

What are the indicators of over honing?

not 100% but I think thin edges that chip easily giving a harsh feel to them is a indicator

Thank you, Substance.

Overhoning is when you over sharpe rhe edge and get wire edge . An old barber told me how to get rid of this When you have razor like this Push the blade in his entire lenght throw the finger nail or throw a soft wood . Have to be gentle not to kill the edge totaly .
Then put the rasor again on the finishing stone , for a retouch.
This hapens when people use stroping type stroke on a hone , witch gives momentary sharpness . but this feeling is false .
It hapened to me 2 times with a 6/8 razors that has a spine wear and the bevell angle is small for a stable edge . I put some layers of tape on the spine , and i increace the angle / or i think so / Like that i get more stable edge om the full hollow razors
I never had this problem on a 1/2 or 1/4 hollow blades .

Overhoning in the old school sense, as well as I can tell, is working the edge with a less than superfine abrasive (like a barber hone) all the way to the edge. You get a harsh shave because of a rough edge.

It's used around here also when too much pressure is applied during the bevel set and the geometry of the edge bevel is changed, making it thinner and weak.

The two uses of the word are not similar, especially since a lot of the modern abrasives are so fine that the first definitely really never occurs (until you go back and ignore the directions on an old barber hone).

I'd imagine in the old days, barbers protected the edge of their razor and allowed the strop to condition it and didn't want the hone doing anything other than keeping the geometry just behind the very edge in good shape so that the edge didn't get too much thickness.

Thank you both (RusenBG & DaveW) for the imput. Learner is learning more all the time.