Thread: My next honing challenge- chipped bevel

Coming off my latest honing success- a pretty severely warped blade- I am ready to take on my next honing challenge...a chip (as seen below in pics)

This is an otherwise really nice Genco razor that I recently won off eBay and upon cursory examination looks pretty good- spine is straight very little honewear no frown/smile/toe wear.

This is the biggest chip I have dealt with so far so want to make sure I do this right.




~Grasshopper

Gssixgun has a flawless video on youtube using the bread knifing procedure to remedy this. You'll want to attack this in such a way to keep a slight smile to the blade removing equal amounts of material from both sides of the blade.
Very nice razor you have there, minimal hone wear.

Originally Posted by Aerdvaark

Gssixgun has a flawless video on youtube using the bread knifing procedure to remedy this. You'll want to attack this in such a way to keep a slight smile to the blade removing equal amounts of material from both sides of the blade.
Very nice razor you have there, minimal hone wear.

Great! I will definitely check that out- I have heard of that procedure but want to be sure I do it correctly too nice of a razor to trust to trial and error.

I have another Genco that I absolutely love so I was really glad to find this one for a great price.

a little chip like that will come out nicely using that technique. It is only a small challenge. One thing for certain, if you go to regular honing when the chip is almost gone, then once you are sure you have honed past that chip the the bevel will definitely be set.

Yes! That is an awesome by product of honing past a chip, your done....

It looks to me like there is no bevel.
By the time you create one that chip will be gone..

The Genco's come up great and you should hone it out easy with just the 1k quick enough

@JOB15 there is no bevel.

I think I will start by putting a bevel on with shapton pro 1.5k and see where I am.

If I was going to breadknife wouldn't I do that before I set the bevel?

I am thinking going as conservative as possible to save steel? Is it a 6 of one half dozen of the other type of situation?

Originally Posted by Sdm84

@JOB15 there is no bevel.

I think I will start by putting a bevel on with shapton pro 1.5k and see where I am.

If I was going to breadknife wouldn't I do that before I set the bevel?

I am thinking going as conservative as possible to save steel? Is it a 6 of one half dozen of the other type of situation?

If it were me, that chip is relatively small so I think I'd give setting the bevel a go first. You may well find that by the time bevel is set the chip will be gone. Even if it there still is a very tiny amount of the chip still showing after the bevel is set the next hone in the progression will likely finish it off. That is a very conservative way of doing it that will remove the least amount of steel but will take longer.

Either way will work so the choice is yours.

Bob

I'm with BoB! I would set the bevel as a first step to see where that takes me. If I can remove the chip with the bevel setting, I have removed less steel. Less is more, as always!

But practising breadknifing is never wrong, if you want to improve your honing skills...

Jacke