Thread: Question

Yes, you need a rolling X to get the toe and heel and NO, do not do a 45 degree stroke, just set the bevel and tape the spine so you do not wear it away excessively.

Also look like the beginnings of a heel spur, from honing just as you are doing now. Round out that heel with a diamond file, or 1k ish stone. If you don’t it will be a blood letter.

15 um should set the bevel with the proper stroke, as will 1K wet & dry it will stick to your substrate, if it is flat like film.
It is much easier to set the bevel on a stone or 1K diamond plate with lite strokes then switch to film.

Tape the spine and ink the bevel to see your progress.

Find a local mentor to cut your learning curve.

What are you using as a substrate?

Here

is a good video from Charlie Lewis on honing a smiling razor.

A real good perspective to see the rolling motion, notice it is not a lot.

Your razor seems to have an issue at the heel - it looks to me like a frown about 3/4" from the heel or in the best case it's change of the curvature to straight line. In any case there seems to be no bevel in that third of the blade, which means there is a lot of steel to remove.

I'd have passed on the razor based solely on that crazy bevel variation (though I hate the execution of the regrind as well) - no matter whether it's poor regrinding or poor honing attempts.

I'm not familiar with lapping film, but with that much work ahead of you you may be better off buying a coarse hone. The advantage of hone is the ability to use pressure for faster removal of steel.

Originally Posted by Euclid440

Tape the spine and ink the bevel to see your progress.

Find a local mentor to cut your learning curve.

What are you using as a substrate?

I put two layers of tape on this one.

The substrate is a Lee Valley Granite block designed for the purpose. It's flat.

Overall, I think this is a razor that will be put on the shelf for now. I do not have the honing experience to tackle this properly just yet, and I do not want to risk damaging it through impatience. It's not going to go anywhere, and I will likely be picking up a 1k stone at some point, so parking it for the time being is not going to be an issue. Disappointing perhaps, but not as bad as ruining the blade through inexperience.

Thanks for the responses, guys. I will be revisiting this thread when I get ready to tackle this edge.