Thread: Finally have a whole progression!

Not certain I wanted affirmation that I'm an idiot, but from you Utopian, I'll take it.

I actually used a recently honed razor by Glen. I removed the edge on a glass jar and then tried setting a new bevel. I am using 1 layer of tape and using the circle method. What is odd is, when I watch the videos, I normally see a decent amount of swarf, but when I try to hone, I get little to no swarf. I am afraid to push very hard as I heard that is not good for blades either.

The practice razor so far has been a vintage Shapleigh hardware 5/8.

Originally Posted by TheFiveO

Not certain I wanted affirmation that I'm an idiot, but from you Utopian, I'll take it.

I actually used a recently honed razor by Glen. I removed the edge on a glass jar and then tried setting a new bevel. I am using 1 layer of tape and using the circle method. What is odd is, when I watch the videos, I normally see a decent amount of swarf, but when I try to hone, I get little to no swarf. I am afraid to push very hard as I heard that is not good for blades either.

The practice razor so far has been a vintage Shapleigh hardware 5/8.

Hey, I did say "temporarily!!!"

If Glen already set the bevel, then geometry issues are not the problem. If you killed the edge on glass, then there should have been very little effort needed to restore the edge. Did you ever try the thumb pad test (TPT) on the edge before you killed it? You need a way to assess your progress in restoring the edge and your two options are by feel with the TPT or by magnified observation. As you hone on the 1k making progress in getting the bevels to again meet in a perfect "V" the bite into your thumb should increase.

You DO need to use some pressure and it needs to be slightly torqued onto the edge rather than the spine. The hard thing to tell you online is how much pressure to use. Regardless, as you make progress the pressure needs to reduce. Also, you need to keep an eye on the taped spine. If the tape is wearing away, then you need to change it, because as the tape wears the spine is lowering and so the edge is no longer touching the hone.

nice set-up Steve