Thread: Proud Day In Honing History

Ok, maybe not in honing history, but MY honing history. I've only honed maybe a dozen of my razors. This weekend I picked up this Wostenholm pipe razor. It's just shy of 6/8. It was a bit ugly but not bad. I did a clean up of the razor, but wouldn't call it a resto. Then I honed it up. I used a Naniwa Pro 1k to set the bevel, Norton 4k/8K to refine the bevel and a Naniwa 12k to finish. It came out beautiful, and a great shave. But with my inexperience I knew with the sway back and big smile it was going to be a challenge. But it wasn't until I got into it that I discovered the blade was slightly bent evidenced by the rock in the blade. The spine is straight by the way. So not only was there a smile to deal with but bent blade also. It took some creative strokes, but I'm proud of the outcome!