Thread: Hone of the Day

Thanks cudarunner, that’s always a fun video to watch. To be fair, I’m sure that Dovo does have some very good people grinding razors, yet they manage to release a large percentage of razors that like JOB15’s razor, are overground in the middle and won’t hone on a flat stone. Here’s an example. At first, I honed a little more to see if the overground middle would clear, but it would not, it’s overground well up into the hollow. But only on the pile side, the other side is well ground. I honed it using the corner of a hone to ride into the overground area. That’s why there’s a bevel there.

If you watch the video from say 4:15-4:25, seeing the grinder inserting the blade between the wheels, ask yourself ‘What part of the blade spends the most time on the wheels?’ Not the heel, that’s spending about 50% of the time off the wheel. I cam’t see the nose, but the middle of the blade is constantly in contact with the wheel. I suspect that if you don’t compensate for that, you’ll get an overground middle. Which is exactly what you see below. Reminds me of honing to a frown that Glen mentions, if you don’t bias the wear a little to the toe and heel, you’ll grind too much in the middle.

The grinder can apparently compensate for it, there are many well-ground modern Dovos, I have a couple. And a well ground Bismark is a thing of joy, especially in better scales. But a 30% chance of getting a dog is too high if the company and vendors don’t support returns of badly ground razors.