Thread: TI Le Dandy honing headache

The spine looks to have a little wear as well and the shoulder is level with the spine on the pic you posted. Perhaps 2-3 layers of tape and trying to keep off the shoulder will help.

The bevel your setting also looks to be increasing to the toe, That would suggest your perhaps using too much pressure and or rolling the spine a bit too much. Or the spine has uneven wear and you need to account for that on the stroke.

Have you checked the blade geometry on some glass? If you have a nice flat piece of glass kicking about it would make your life a lot easier just to mist it and have a look through the glass at how the spine and edge are interacting with the flat surface. A glass out of a picture frame would work, Just remember that the tang needs to be off the edge of the glass. I have an optical lab block and do this with every blade I touch now because it'll show me a lot of the problems before I even start. If you add a bit of food colour to the water your using to mist then you should be able to see high/low spots.

Low spots will have a meniscus edge. It looks like the water is forming a bubble either side of the low spot.

High spots will show as a reduction in colour over the regular colour.