Thread: Latest project, critiques please

If it was caused by the warp, a rolling X stroke should have got the heel honed.

Honing to the edge is just that, adjusting the X stroke, so the pressure point transfers from the heel to the toe as you progress, across and down the stone. Not quite a rocking motion, just a pressure shift.

It is not unusual to end up with a bevel of different widths because of a smile, (the distance from edge to spine), different width of the spine and the warp of the blade. The bevel will be the opposite width will on the other side.

If you do not alter the pressure with a slight rocking motion, your bevel will not be on the stone and the new bevel will not reach the edge and be completely sharp from heel to toe.

Some Sharpie ink will tell you where you hone is making contact with the bevel and you adjust the pressure or rocking accordingly, to reach the edge.

You should begin the stroke with the toe in the upper right corner and end with the toe in the middle of the hone at the end. If you do too aggressive an angle the heel comes off the hone in the first inch of lateral travel and does not get honed.

Check the library for more information and there are some good videos by GSSixgun and others. It does take some practice and patients to properly hone some problem razors but can be done.