Razor honing for a new guy.......

A local guy stopped over today for help touching up his razor. His name is Animesh and he has been to my home several times since last summer.

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One of the razors I had worked on was this one.........

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much to my surprise he gave it to me and said that he has decided that full hollow ground razor suited him better! :)

We took a bunch of pics so here is a link to all of them.....

Animesh-March-1-2014 - a set on Flickr

Then I dragged out my microscope and we played with examining the edge and also
tried to use a new camera to take pics of the edge thru the scopes eyepiece. I need to play some more with the lighting and the zoom.

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Animesh had tried to touch up the edge himself but his error was using 2 hands when honing and putting to much pressure on the toe end of the blade. he ended up with a "frown" 1/2" back in from the toe end of the blade. I showed him how to correct a frown and worked up thru a 8K.

Here is that razor......

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Tomorrow will be another new guy! :)

One on one is the best way to teach and the best way to learn. That eliminates bad habits from the gitgo...... Animesh is very fortunate.