Thread: What's your pick for repairing minor damaged edged

I would need a definition of minor as I think I would recommend the 4K and a can of professional strength patience. The can that I use is free. You can get it at any hardware store, or you can just live a bit longer and they deliver it to your door.

Yep, I've done many a repair with microchips on the 4K. I find the 1K to be able to do Just about anything. Its extraordinarily rare I go lower.

We must have a bunch of impatient people here.

Originally Posted by AFDavis11

I would need a definition of minor

I was just about to post the same thing

If a 1k Norton isn't solving the issue, then I don't really think of it as minor myself.

For ebay wedge specials, I've found the DMTs to be handy, but they're pretty aggressive so I still have to spend lots of time smoothing the bevel out after getting off the DMTs.

Take it for what it's worth

Good luck!

Thanks to everyone for the advice provided.

I guess my "minor repair" remark threw people for a loop.
I don't really know what I am talking about when it comes to gauging repair severity.

I did about 200-300 laps on a norton 1K and still couldn't get a nice clean even bevel all the way across the whole edge. So I was looking for something a little faster.

I just got a Naniwa 1K superstone, so maybe I will go with a 400 Superstone to match it.

I've had a couple of Ebay specials (a torrey, 2 gencos, a couple of other USA razors, and a couple of Sheffield wedges) that have taken the proverbial can of industrial strength patience to get rid of nicks and set a good even bevel. I find that the can of patience I use to polish off low-grit scratch marks is more powerful than the can I use to remove the nicks and set the bevel.

Therefore I just ordered a DMT 220 for (very lightly) use in removing nicks and straightening warped bevels. My DMT 1200 will clean that up relatively quickly, and I can go on from there with the sharpening.

If my budget weren't so constrained, I would probably have bought the 325. but I can use the 220 to lap water stones, so that was the extra nudge on that purchase.