Thread: Dulling the edge.

Are we talking just "dulling" an edge or bread knifing?

I follow Utopian and Hirlau. Never dulled one on purpose. The scope and bevel setter should tell you if your edge is new. If that fails, use a Sharpie to see if metal is removed.

I remember it used to be the general advice for coticle honing. Before nani's and shaptons if you didn't want to use a norton the next best choice was a coti. The problem was it was common to get parts of the edge sharp, and so the inexperienced 'honer' didn't know if it was themselves, the razor or the hone. It was a simple solution to a very frustrating problem.

Originally Posted by Utopian

I don't dull the edge either nor have I ever seen the point in it. I consider it to be the equivalent to breaking my legs as a first step for training for a marathon.

You're doing that thing again, aren't you, where you exaggerate like crazy.

On a stone, it will remove small chips, if the bevels are flat already, they will quickly come together at a straight edge.

It takes seconds or about 10 laps to bring the bevel back, lets not make this a big deal about bringing the edge back or wasting steel ..

A couple of TNT's pretty much does the same as a couple of light strokes on the corner of a stone.. Check the results yourself under magnification

It is an effective fix especially for restoration blades rough uneven edges after they have been subjected to sandpaper or buffers..

I have never seen anyone recommend it for simple honing, other then in some of the old Coti threads, never made much sense for simple honing, but once again, we tend to not differentiate between Honing and Edge Restoration so it creates confusion

But for edge restoration it works fast and effectively IME anyway

Originally Posted by gssixgun

It takes seconds or about 10 laps to bring the bevel back, lets not make this a big deal about bringing the edge back or wasting steel ..

A couple of TNT's pretty much does the same as a couple of light strokes on the corner of a stone.. Check the results yourself under magnification

It is an effective fix especially for restoration blades rough uneven edges after they have been subjected to sandpaper or buffers..

I have never seen anyone recommend it for simple honing, other then in some of the old Coti threads, never made much sense for simple honing, but once again, we tend to not differentiate between Honing and Edge Restoration so it creates confusion

But for edge restoration it works fast and effectively IME anyway

I watched your "Tape vs No Tap" clip yesterday.
Today I wanted to hone my favourite edge, honed only once since new, refreshed numerous times.
Instead of doing a 1 k new bevel as usual I tried the 5k refresh bevel. It worked a treat.
I then hit 6 different Naguras and ended up with an amazing edge without losing hardly any steel.
Thanks for that , from now on I will just refresh bevels on my 5k Chosera.