Thread: you bevel setting experts.....

oh boy , a gold dollar thread lol

Im sorry but that just bad advise, a beginner must learn how to shave and strop first, and not playing with a razor that has geometry problems and wont hold an edge, because he has no idea of what wrong, whether its is shaving technique, or stropping, or the edge of the razor.

Youre right , but he already has it and he is in the problem , so for 10 bucs he can grind , hone , rehone and broke it with pleasure .
I began very briefly as a newbe and i read lot of info first ,so i was enjoyng with this razor to learn and to create .
But for a newbe as a 2 hours newbe , that have no clue wats the real thing i agree that is good to began with a something old , but right in a geometry .
Buy the way i have few elite Solingen razors ,that have a small geometry issues , but that is a serious problem with the honing and puting the right edje on them. Only the X stroke and a diferent hones that i have worked in this situation .
I dont want to give a bad advise , youre right that the new users have to began with something non problematic . I just whant to say that he cat take advantage of this situation buy enjoyng him self to grind the razor and to do evrythind he wants to learn what to do and what does not work.

I use them for testing and edge exchanges, and a lot of them have had the same problem at the heel. On the show side the angle set by the spine doesn't let the hone hit the apex of the edge, initially by a good part of the bevel width and as much as about 3/16 up the edge. Not all but many.

You may well have to grind away more of the width than you'd like to to fix it.

It isn't the stabilizer doing this on the ones I have, it's a spine-edge geometry thing, the way it's ground at the heel on one side, or a warp/twist at the last 1/4" or so?

They're not worth it from the time you have to invest IMO. I usually have 3-4 hours in one that's initially pretty good, but they're part of the honing hobby not the shaving hobby.

Cheers, Steve

Myself have honed probably 100 gold dollars ..and my man bill3152 is like the gold dollar guru.. Listen try rolling x strokes.. Without even putting a dremel to the heel or toe.. I think u will cover the entire edge.. If not grind down the heel and toe you should be fine..if you insist on the gd the other shaving forum B and B has entire thread dedicated to this