Thread: Help with my Joseph Rodgers wedge.

3 layers of tape. Swoop long and hard. Swoop! It will shave great! Hopefully!

I can feel your greif but it is all in technique you will find
I have found Glens vids (I think it was his) with the heel leading Rolling X stroke works for me for the smilings blades & it took me a lot longer to learn to get these even close compared to straight edges as I have a few smiling blades to contend with.
I started with 2 layers of tape also trying to figure it oput but now have dropped back to my standard 1 layer with all blades

practice & patience is all you need, I know & had walk away a few times when learning the Rolling X stroke

Hey guys,
Thanks for the advice.
Rezdog. I have watched a few of his video's including the one you mention as I'm pretty committed to learning, I am just a little bit nervous about taking more material off then needed. The hones I have are the norton 4-8k and atoma 1200 for lapping and serious metal removal. As well as a finishing stone (which I have not gotten to yet). I have been watching your posts on the rockhounding thread, really cool stuff!

And thanks to you other guys for your replies as well. I will try the extra tape and continue with the "shoop!"

It takes a really long time to cut a bevel on a 4K and I am not a big fan of using diamond plates for bevel setting. All in good time.

Not the razor I would suggest using as your first hone experience, just sayin.

when i hone with tape i say to people its a good idea to note how many layers were used (i try to use no more than 1 layer personally) so if the person you had hone it keeps a record or if they mentioned to you how many they used that's a good start. if they used 3 layers to keep the bevel smallish then you will hone quite a bit on that wedge with 2 layers before you set the bevel again. if the edge is rolled then you would have to be resigned to either ending up with a wider bevel (not the end of the world), using more tape than expected (not the end of the world but a pain to have to layer it up each time rehoning comes around, not to mention having to remember how many layers each time!) or having the blade lightly reground by a professional ( not the end of the world unless the blade has an etch that you just have to save)
just a few thoughts

also- i just noticed that you ran the tape up onto the tang, try stopping the tape shy of the tang, sometimes that transition raises the heel off the hone, especially with multiple layers applied. then isolate pressure at the heel without lifting the spine and you should be able to bring the bevel all way down in short order.