Thread: Stainless steel razor honing

I tried 12k, but the small divots and flat spots were still there. I dropped to 8K and was able to get them removed. I had to apply extra pressure at heel and toe, to get it to make contact, and I tried to improve some on this odd spot on the left side near the heel, where the bevel is narrower. It's a tiny bit better, but not too much. I used two layers of tape and it seemed to match what was on there for the final bevel (not the lower grit bevel area as shown above.

Really odd bevel on this one. One side straight, one side tapered smaller from toe to 2/3 of the way, and then increases to the heel. It wasn't too much harder to make progress with the hone, as compared to the other blades. I thought the Stainless would be really hard to hone off metal.

I'll test shave it Thursday and see how it feels. Should be better. I also touched up two other razors (just with the 12K) and need to check them out as well.

Here is the problem area, and a shot of the toe - you can see the bevel is not very wide at the tip - I tried a bit of a rolling X to get to that part.