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    Default 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!
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    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.
    JERRY
    OOOPS! Pass the styptic please.

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