Thread: honing progression with pictures and extra details!!!

Did you re-lap the stone?

To the OP, it takes time and many honings to learn a stone. Your bevels look good and I think you are very close, watch the pressure. It could be too much or not enough.

And remember you are honing a razor of questionable quality...

Originally Posted by Euclid440

Did you re-lap the stone?.

Yes, I did. I was mainly interested in testing the "over honing" idea. With my sample of 'one' I did not get chipping no matter how long I stayed on the stone.

Originally Posted by bluesman7

Fonz came over today and I purposely tried to over hone (in excess of 100 laps) a Joseph Elliot "The Hamburg Ring" on his Shapton ceramic 15k. I got none of the chipping that is in the pictures. I was viewing with 100x. Seemed as good as my Naniwa 12k. Just did a shave test. The shave was very close, I'm waiting to see if there is any post shave irritation

Sounds like operator error of some sort lol... Definitely am learning more and more every trip I make up to your house victor lol... It's interesting how u were getting different results than I, As the more strokes were made and no chipping occurred the more I was kicking my self lol..

Originally Posted by Euclid440

Did you re-lap the stone?

To the OP, it takes time and many honings to learn a stone. Your bevels look good and I think you are very close, watch the pressure. It could be too much or not enough.

And remember you are honing a razor of questionable quality...

It happened with my Ralf Aust i just got from SRD like a couple days ago... I honed it and it did the same chipping... I shaved with it and it did okay, but I had Victor clean up my honing and now the edge is perfect, btw Victor I shaved with it today and it was close and comfortable, but my real test is how ATG on my head feels and it shaved me up with no pulling... Good work!

It could have been something as simple as a low spot , an edge on the stone that needed cleaning up, or pressure issue.

It is impossible to describe to someone how much pressure is needed and it will change from stone to stone and razor to razor.

I think there was something on the stone.

Good work. Fonz & Victor.

Thanks for the interesting and informative thread.