Thread: What's the trick?

A little better pics would help.

The wear on the bevel should correspond to the wear on the spine. The bevel in the pics looks like less wear than the spine which makes me believe you are not keeping both the spine and the bevel on the stone with equal pressure. Try to do that and use more X strokes than circles to see if you can wake up that bevel.

Good luck.

Well there is a trick to this...I've been at this for about 18 months now and have honing down pat and it works every time.

What I do is this, put the razor I want to hone in a small box, wrapped in bubble wrap. I then mail it to a honemaster near me, and magically in about 10 days, it comes back with a stellar edge!

I must say, I reached "expert level" using this methodology fairly quickly.

Originally Posted by Lynn

A little better pics would help.

The wear on the bevel should correspond to the wear on the spine. The bevel in the pics looks like less wear than the spine which makes me believe you are not keeping both the spine and the bevel on the stone with equal pressure. Try to do that and use more X strokes than circles to see if you can wake up that bevel.

Good luck.

To do what Lynn said I start putting pieces of tape the length of the flat spot. When I build up the tape to the same level as the good spine area I add one more layer, and hit it with a flame just to increase the adhesiveness of tape and then I squash it in my hands to make sure its on tight. On one that flat at the toe just eyeballing my money is about 5 layers to get it the ball park. Make it equal along the length of the spine. depending on how whacked the spine is . I have done small pieces of tape of different layer amounts then cover the whole tape mess with a cover layer along the entire length of spine.
Think drywall finishing flat wall different amount of mud for different amounts of indentations. Same thing applied to spine. Use as many layers as it takes till you get to the same level as healthy spine. I go plus one layer because I am going to wear it off during the process .

Phrank you and I mastered a shave ready edge by the same method ,, Bravo. Tc

Originally Posted by Phrank

Well there is a trick to this...I've been at this for about 18 months now and have honing down pat and it works every time.

What I do is this, put the razor I want to hone in a small box, wrapped in bubble wrap. I then mail it to a honemaster near me, and magically in about 10 days, it comes back with a stellar edge!

I must say, I reached "expert level" using this methodology fairly quickly.

Now that's funny, I don't care who you are!!

Originally Posted by Beadog

Now that's funny, I don't care who you are!!

Well, in all fairness I believe I "borrowed" that comment from pixelfixed...could be mistaken, might have been another member, but the gruff, no b.s., straight to the point comment makes me think I'm pretty sure it was him.

High quality pics help us, but can I suggest you get a pocket microscope and look at the edge yourself.

It helped me a lot. I could tell where I was not being consistent. I could see right away where my bevel was wider, or where the edge was still rough. I always felt like I was using the perfect technique, then I would see an uneven edge.

This helped me improve e my technique. The edge amazingly got exponentially better.