Thread: Ding near toe... go right to the 1K?

Can you elaborate on the bevel set? Looking along the edge it meets, except for right at the toe. Is that what you mean? Or is it that the toe has multiple surfaces?

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There are a lot of relatively deep stria right at the edge that fade as you move up the bevel. In the second picture, the roughness of the edge is very apparent, much more so than it should be after a 12k Naniwa. That indicates to me that you have been mostly polishing the bevel behind the edge while leaving the edge still rough. If the bevel was truly set, you'd be polishing all the way to the edge.

Originally Posted by sqzbxr

There are a lot of relatively deep stria right at the edge that fade as you move up the bevel. In the second picture, the roughness of the edge is very apparent, much more so than it should be after a 12k Naniwa. That indicates to me that you have been mostly polishing the bevel behind the edge while leaving the edge still rough. If the bevel was truly set, you'd be polishing all the way to the edge.

Thanks for the clarification. It's been several months since I did some honing, and I need to relearn some of the steps.


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This is an enlarged section of your second photo with the brightness and contrast tweaked a little to show the stria at the edge:

I wouldn't accept that edge even off a 1K.

I personally would go to the 1k and perform rolling X strokes with little pressure .

Also making sure I didn't do too much .. Easier said than done without experience.

Here is a 1k edge I did recently. Your 1k edge should look a bit more like this imo:

Originally Posted by JOB15

I wouldn't accept that edge even off a 1K.

I personally would go to the 1k and perform rolling X strokes with little pressure .

Also making sure I didn't do too much .. Easier said than done without experience.

Here is a 1k edge I did recently. Your 1k edge should look a bit more like this imo:

How wide is your bevel in this picture? My bevel is about 0.5mm in the center of the blade and near 1mm at the edges (so this picture is pretty high magnification). It definitely has deeper/more stria than the heel and toe (I was really concentrating on the toe, because of the ding). I'll try to work on it with the 4K as soon as I get another chance, and see how it comes out. I didn't get to test shave it this morning (forgot to bring it up into the bathroom last night).

Probably double the size of yours .
I like to have minimum teeth with the bevel set before I move on, metal type dependant of course.

If I see micro chips or teeth I nail drag it and come back more tentatively.

I think if you start off well you can end well and get really decent edges..
These are my thoughts at this moment in time. It's a constant learning curve..

With 4K did a bunch of circles, and then heel leading strokes with pressure on mid and toe, then lighter strokes. This is where it is right now (the marks are 1mm apart.