Quote Originally Posted by dshaves View Post
Awesome thank you, I have been learning a great deal here. Were you referring to the toothy edge when I asked about the blade grabbing my nail heel to toe? On the 1k I tried seeing the bevel and it passed all the test but when I shined the bright light down in the edge I could still see a faint white line, then I did a few spine leading strokes and the edge was invisible, what would that info mean to you? Just trying to pick your brain

Side note: I continued with that bevel through the progression to finish and a great shave with zero sting from the aftershave...
The comfortable shave is the only test that matters

Now you can keep adjusting ONE aspect at a time to improve how smooth it is

Myself I am very hesitant about ending on spine leading laps, I use them, and Japanese honing (Back and Forth), but I always finish off on every stage with edge leading..


The TNT can also be used to Kill the Edge/Joint/Downstroke once you learn the technique, it is a gentler version of using the hone or corner of the hone..

There are tons of little tricks to draw out the smoothest edge possible, once you are getting a CCS like you did then you can start playing around with them..

And yes if the Bevel set TNT is very hard and very "graby" then you very well might have a toothy edge in which case a Jointing or Corner of the hone light stroke to kill the edge might smooth it up, and then gently reset the bevel and move on again...