Thread: Tweaking the Edge with Tape

I've been scratching my head about this thread, maybe I have taken the context wrong. I have enough experience honing to converse with anyone as I have tried quite a bit of stones, methods, and so on. It all comes down to "does it shave well" doesn't it? I've played around with micro-bevels myself & at first I liked them...until it came to touching up the blade & then you have to ask yourself if you did a micro-bevel or not. I have several razors in my rotation, so I can't remember which I honed which way...this is why I don't bother with them unless I come across a very chippy razor.

Now, lets move forward to this thread. A man who is well known for his blades and from what I have heard & read even knows how to hone a bit, brings up something that HE is doing and shares it with supportive documentation. A good word for his method is a "nano-bevel". His method, on a microscopic level, strongly resembles the strongest cutting edge ever...the samurai sword in my mind. I can easily see, with my experience, that this method WILL WORK. There is nobody on this forum that prove otherwise as I am sure we will hear a shave report from Birnando & I bet it will be positive...and he's no rookie at shaving either.

What I am getting at is that I hone using a method that I believe is best, Lynn, Kelly, Glenn, and Joe Schmuckatelly all hone differently...but the end it's all the same: Does it shave comfortable and well? If it does, WHO CARES how the razor got there as the method obviously works. Try different methods once and a while, all it will do is improve your knowledge base...don't get stuck in a rut.

No, I don't use tape on my own razors, no I don't use micro or nano bevels, and Pecan Pie is THE best pie made...if you don't agree, go lick a toad...with ice cream of coarse.