Thread: Show Me Your... Bevel Setters!

I'm with Zephyr I use a Chosera 1K for all bevel setting. By far my favorite starter stone.

I couldnt set a bevel even if my life depended on it. All my razors a shave ready. So I need my finishers only. One day I will learn from start to finish how to restore razors and I am sure I will need to learn the A-Z of how to polish and hone a razor from buffing it to polishing it to setting the bevel and finally finishing it

Originally Posted by feelgeorge13

I couldnt set a bevel even if my life depended on it. All my razors a shave ready. So I need my finishers only. One day I will learn from start to finish how to restore razors and I am sure I will need to learn the A-Z of how to polish and hone a razor from buffing it to polishing it to setting the bevel and finally finishing it

I picked up Eagle one Never dull Wadding Polish but forgot lytex gloves.
Seems like a good choice. Finer then steel wool. I would never use steel wool.
works well once ya get the bulk of the rust off with a single edge razor blade.
Some of the blades i working on cleaning the rust off would never be perty collectable razors.
just blades to shave with. Some are baddly pitten on the spines.
But vintage steel is such a nice quailty of steel. I am going to be busy picked up a lot of 20 rusty razors.
considering how old they are it's a sweet deal.
the seller said to will wrap each blade before i sniped it so they not going to get worst as far as the
edges are.

and for the blades that come with alot of metal ground off it in the middle of the blade i use a course
220 norton waterstone.
I just prefil waterstone over the oil stones.
cause the manmade oil stones are no good for razors in
my opnion due to you need to use presure to have those cut.
with the manmade waterstones they just cut steel with a light touch.
and all of my vintage hollow ground razors have paper thin blades.

I do wonder what brand that is cause i paid 50 bucks for those sencod hand. but i like those more
then the norton and king brand stones due to they don't require soaking i just let the water run with them
in the soak before using.
i got a 2k and a 5k and a unusable 12k for razors due to it not being flat i might flatten it
on cement the 12 k one. and a purple one that finer then the 12k but broken.
and unflat flatting stones lol. so i flated them with a diamond plate.
and three stones that i don't know what they are.

Here are mine: On the left is my Nani 1K. Works great - love it. The one on the right I picked up at my local Ace Hardware. I can't recall what the grits are, but it works wonders on those hard to set eBay razors that will even give my 1K a workout.



Then there is my Coti - people claim it can set a bevel, and I guess it can, but man is that work and on a eBay razor that's seen years of "box duty"... well as they say in NY - forget about it lol. But I love it too.

Thanks, earcutter, this is a great thread for me to follow as I am planning to buy a bevel setter. Am thinking of a king or the norton 220/1000. I have set my bevels with the norton 4000 on those razors I've bought from ebay that are not shave ready. And thanks to all for sharing.

Originally Posted by vicmaldo

Thanks, earcutter, this is a great thread for me to follow as I am planning to buy a bevel setter. Am thinking of a king or the norton 220/1000. I have set my bevels with the norton 4000 on those razors I've bought from ebay that are not shave ready. And thanks to all for sharing.

Thanks. I don't know what your collection consists of... but boy are you going to enjoy a real bevel setter vs. your 4K!

You will not use it as much as your finishers, but man will they make a difference for you.

Let's see, My go to Bevel setter is the Chosera 1k, No base. If I want a base, I use the Steelex adjustable holder, plus, you I can use both sides of the stone, Not that I need to...

I also have a full set of DMT's
The King 1k
Norton 1k
Naniwa 1k

I have a bunch of rocks, I may be forgetting some. Arks, some could be bevel setters, Coti's, I have one vintage pink one that's definitely a bevel setter. It's a hybrid. The other side is Let Lat. It's the "pinkist Coti I've ever seen, Pink slurry and all.

And I use the Shapton GS series for honing. No 1k. I have the 2, 4, 6, 8 and 16k

I like going from the Chosera 1k to the Shaton 2k GS. It's a nice transition.

For junkers I start on the Chosera 600 or even the DMT 325 if they're really bad. I don't fully set the bevel there, just get it close.

For anything that's close, I use the Norton 1k or Naniwa SS 2k depending on the condition and how close it is.
I always use the 2k SS after the Norton - I don't like the jump from 1k to 4k.