Thread: honing slump

so today i actually went to my collection of razors that i have honed myself and tried ALL of them out to see if they were working, and to confirm to myself that i can hone a razor to shave ready!

because at the moment any razor that i attempt to hone seems to stay rather dull. ive tried oil stones, watre stones going up grits, down grits, doing laps on wet and dry on a lapping plate. i went through and watched more of gssixgun's videos and still am struggling to make the with the last few razors in my collection shave ready.



My current problems are:



Wade and butcher wedge: i have dropped to about 600grit to try and remove enough metal to set the edge. while looking at it with a loupe while the razor is on the stone, all of the edge touches but i can still see the flat edge and how much metal i still need to remove. so far it has only been one layer of tape, but i am contemplating moving to two or three layers even. once i go up a layer is it difficult to bring it down a layer? will it drastically change the end shave results?

Joesph worstenholm EBRO Wedge: had to find clean metal on this one but once i did everything looked great, went up my progression and it's still like shaving with a spoon.


A bostwick hollow ground- its quite narrow and long but has a fair smile to it. not a clue whats this razors problem, been up and back my progression so many times its not funny. not sure what to do with this one. any suggestions on techniques or ideas are welcome!


Boker Zenith hollow ground: finally found clean metal on 1000g (a very narrow strip) is there enough of a smile to warrant rolling x strokes?


i don't think that wedges are my problem, i have a couple of b j eyres honed and a couple of dubl duck wedges that are brilliant shavers.

all with one layer of tape, hones are 600 oil, 1000 water and oil, 3000, 4000, 8000 all water, duro barbers hone

any help would be appreciated.