Thread: removing small chips

Gerrit, how large were the chips in the razor Glen works in that video compared to the one the OP is dealing with?

Originally Posted by gssixgun

That actually came out way better than I hoped for

To answer the inevitable questions,,
The razor actually had 2 chips to start out with one was about 1mm deep the larger one was maybe 2mm or just a smidgen less...

The one thing you can barely hear there is when I say "You don't need to get behind the chips to fix them"... What that means is you don't have to take off all that steel... If you just get the back of the chip to barely meet the edge with the bread knifing techniques, then as you hone it in you can actually waste less steel than just honing...

I was just showing the different techniques of moving the razor at the begining... I usually use the back and forth Bread knife movement for bad chips at either 60 degrees or 45 degrees to start...

Thanks go to Nanna & deighaingeal for the video work, and helping me keep things from in front of the camera

I hope that answers that question. Sorry it took me so long to respond.

Whenever I need to remove chips that are very little I just try a DMT 1200 and see how that works. Once I see that it may take too long I move down a step to the 325 DMT plate, tape the spine a bit, and then work out the chip on that. I then remove the tape and hone as normal on the DMT 1200 continuous or the naniwa 1K.