Thread: am ruining my blade

Gentlemen,

Am new at honing, trying to sharpen a Heljestrand SE blade on a coticule. The more I try the worst I make it so decided it was time to stop and ask for your advise. The problem is, as you can hopefully see, an asymmetric bevel, starting huge at the right side and the ends in near to no bevel on the left side.

How I made all this damage:
1. Started with tape and using index and thumb fingers on each side of the blade and at the spine and on top of the blade near the spine respectively; fingers touching.
Same asymmetric bevel so:
2. Pushed a little harder on the non-bevel side with no results.
3. Took of the tape to see if that was interfering and made no progress on the bevel side and created quite a bit of spine wear.
4. Went back to tape now only with right hand fingers to the middle of the blade and using very little pressure. In my mind I was imagining I did not have the asymmetric bevel problem to see if my attempts to fix it I was aggravating the problem. No progress. Asymmetry increasing.

The stone is new and was described as a having a "glassy feed back", came lapped and comes from what I-ve read is considered a reputable vendor. I lapped between most steps using a 1k cheapo norton kitchen knife stone. I raised slurry with a slurry stone whenever I restarted (many times).

Chances are this is purely the user's fault, and I hate to put blame on tools but the one possibility I was thinking of is that the glassy part of the stone seems to be concentrated on the upper left corned of the stone and extends to the middle up. Because I saw this as a possibility I made sure to rotate the stone frequently. Also alternated rotating the blade in case I was non-intendedly putting more pressure on one side than the other.

Thanks in advance for your advise, apologies for the long post and painful redaction.

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