Thread: Difficult blade.

It is hard for me to explain why I think it help, so lets just jump to what I do and forget the why. On a restored razor. I will typically set the bevel and then kill it on the corner of the 1K hone and set it again. As I watch the edge come together if it starts to develop unevenly, as in one section is good but the other is not there yet, or has missing pieces, I will kill it hard one more time, and then hone to finish. If it comes together fairly nicely after the first hard kill, I will gently take it off on my thumbnail and then bring it back with just a handful of strokes on the 1K and then move up. In my mind it is all logical but hard for me to explain. You may be getting to the same place by having re-honed it.