Thread: Hone troubles

you should be able to feel if you are catching anything on the crack.

The abrasiveness of the stone should be the same on both sides.

A few things come to mind:

I can't be certain that the stone has even thickness in all directions. A lot of these don't. If it isn't sitting so the surface is level, it isn't easy to keep your stroke even. You may have to adjust the surface you have the hone on to compensate for unevenness and have the surface level. Or are you holding the hone in your hand.

It may be that you are putting uneven weight on the razor in your stroke. Are you using 2 hands? Also. keeping the hand I use to hold the tang elevated and out helped me even out the pressure I was putting on the razor.

Make sure you have lapped flat using the grid test in the wiki.