Originally Posted by
Jimbo
If you feel it is getting closer after you increase the angle with more tape, that's suggestive of the bevel not meeting at a close enough point before you've moved up from the 1K stone in the past. Assuming of course that there's nothing wrong with the blade in terms of temper.
Stainless can take more work; quarter hollow definitely will take more work; and I am pretty sure that guys who make their own razors (or even those that restore old junkers) have coarser hones than a 1K that they use in the early stages. I myself will sometimes use a 400 grit hone on recalcitrant wedges to avoid having to sit there for a day trying to get the bevel close.
So, a hand-made stainless quarter hollow having its bevel set from scratch with a Norton 1K hone - my money is on the bevel not being quite there.
James.