Thread: Are You A Real Man? Do You Think You Can Hone? Shave Off Of Your 1k Hone

Originally Posted by Sdm84

I have a Kuromaku 1.5k bevel setter would this be allowed or is the .5k a deal breaker?

WHATEVER you use for a bevel setter is what you should use here.

The point of this thread, and others that preceded it, has nothing to do with what hone you use to set the bevel. Instead, the point is that you need to learn to get a better sense of the edge at the point when you believe that the bevel is set. If it does not shave, then the bevel is not set. If it does shave, then the question is, what can you do to make it a more comfortable shave off of that same hone? Within reasonable limits, whatever you can do to get a more comfortable shave off of the bevel setting hone increases the odds of the razor being best prepared to move up through higher grit hones.