Thread: Honing a razor with a slight upturned toe

Thanks for all the advice gents, much obliged.

Cheers

I have some granite tile 1 1/2 inch wide with lapping film in different grits. Or as was said rolling x or dmt to even it out.

I'd add a layer of tape to the spine to avoid further hone wear and then use a rolling X stroke to hone this sort of blade.

Avoid breadknifing or other nuclear option, this razor is definitely salvagable and will be usable once properly honed

Good luck and keep us posted!

Originally Posted by Stubear

I'd add a layer of tape to the spine to avoid further hone wear and then use a rolling X stroke to hone this sort of blade.

Avoid breadknifing or other nuclear option, this razor is definitely salvagable and will be usable once properly honed

Good luck and keep us posted!

I have heard from a handful of people that breadknifing is, as you described it, a nuclear option. Probably shy away from that as much as I can

Ive done it a couple times. Depending on how off the blade is, it could take a very long time to get it back. And you would need a coarse hone to do the breadknifing and to start the bevel. Its not terrible in the sense of you will never have to do it again and your future blade maintenance would be a little easier. I agree with those that have said to avoid it if possible and in your case its definitely possible.

So I think you have it boiled down to 2 reasonable choices with one nuclear option. If you don't necessarily need the heel to be as keen as the straight part of the blade then just focusing on the straight part is probably the most razor conserving approach. The nice thing is that with every honing you will be slowly bringing that heel curve down to flat. The nuclear option just forces you to reach this point NOW. The middle ground, which some may consider nuclear as well, is to hone the entire edge. That way you would always have a very slight smile at the heel. I believe some razors are made this way anyway.

Not sure if this helps. But, if it were me and I had plenty of other razors to play with I would just hone regularly as if the whole edge was straight. When it comes to shaving, if you have some facial hair to trim around then this would be a larger issue since you would want the entire heel edge keen for trimming.