I recently finished with a razor that, when I initially attempted honing, didn't notice it had as much of a Frown as it did... I was so excited to give it a try as it was a replacement for a razor I'd regretfully sold in the past. After initially trying to shave (.. attempting to confirm what I was feeling..) I looked closer and found that about the middle 1/3 of the blade was nowhere near where it needed to be.

I re-started and got the bevel set (I used Norton 1k/4/8k then Thuringian then finished on Naniwa 12k) and when I was getting it to catch hair really well on both sides I stopped and took a closer look and one side of the blade had a bevel that was more pronounced than the other side right in the area where the Frown was occurring. So, that is my question... If the bevel is set well but a little off on one side compared to the other is it preferable that you just finish the razor and call it good or keep at it until the bevels are as equal as possible?

In this case I went ahead and finished the razor and it shaves absolutely beautifully! I figured if there were particular reasons to get that geometry absolutely as close as possible I could always start again at a later date. But, I wanted to initially avoid removing more metal if it was not completely necessary.

I was using the 1k and it took quite a bit of time but, for the same reasons as above, I was reluctant to drop down to the 220 as, for me at least right now, I prefer to take whatever time needed and sneak in there rather than go aggressive and find I made a mistake that is really hard to recover from.

Thanks in advance for any and all information!

Shawn
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