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04-13-2007, 10:47 PM #1
I started to get a pretty good feel for it after about 4 years. I, too, vote for some one-on-one training.
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04-13-2007, 11:49 PM #2
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Thanked: 0With barber hones, I've found that it makes honing tons easier to slightly cup the hone and tilt it ever so slightly up maybe 10-15 degrees, so that when you hone, your razor is angled upwards with less of the razor's weight bearing down on the hone. It's allowed me to have a better touch on putting edges on my razors.
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04-13-2007, 11:53 PM #3
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Thanked: 346Yup, I do the angling thing too. As I get to the final strokes on the hone I may wind up close to 75 degrees or so. I do the same thing with the Arkansas and Shapton hones - the translucent arkansas does beautifully with a high angle on the hone and a very slow (1/2" per sec) stroke. Can't do the tilty thing with a puddle or slurry hone unfortunately. At least not without making a mess.
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04-14-2007, 12:35 AM #4
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Thanked: 2204Learn to hone? It took me a long time to both develop the "feel" of honing and to learn the various techniques that can be used on the different razors. Learning how to evaluate an edge before I started honing and then selecting the most effective tools was a big step for me. YMMV.
Randolph Tuttle, a SRP Mentor for residents of Minnesota & western Wisconsin
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04-14-2007, 12:51 AM #5
I'm still learning.
I was able to refresh a close edge imediately. It took me a few weeks to get decent enough to put an edge on a dull razor, and a few months to get good at setting a bevel.
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04-14-2007, 03:11 AM #6
I use the same technique with barber hones, and it works wonders. Tilting the hone also makes it easier to adjust to blades that are less than straight--like smiling blades.
Josh
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04-14-2007, 05:34 AM #7
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Thanked: 9Sure - one more vote for angling the hone. I do this with even with my Escher and the slurry runs a bit...
I find it's just too unnatural to hold the hone otherwise (horizontal) in my hand
Cheers
Ivo
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04-14-2007, 07:59 AM #8
Well, I can't just say we're going off topic and be nice, because I have to have 10 characters to make a stinking post. So I'll ask.... but keep in mind I'm not really asking.... I just need 10 characters but;
How does angling the hone change the amount of time it took you to learn?
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04-14-2007, 12:32 PM #9
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Thanked: 346The hardest thing for me to learn was keeping the pressure really really light on those last dozen laps. Angling the hone "solved" that problem for me in the early days and enabled me to get a shaving edge much earlier in the learning process. Now that technique is just gravy, but in the early days it was a critical success factor.