Thread: EUREKA!!!!

I'm sitting here trying all the gymnastics I can figure out to get this warped Clements blade honed, and it finally hit me. The weight of the blade!

Now, I've read this over and over and been told it till it was coming out my back-side. BUT, I guess I was never really doing it. It just clicked tonight. I was cradling the scales in my open fingers/palm, holding most the weight in my hand, and the blade was just skimming over the stone with the lightest touch. Then it was a matter of controlling the contact of the edge with the stone.
I'd love the jump up and down and cuss for the next 5 minute on this forum but I will contain myself.

It all just came to me and I got a fine, keen edge on the blade and it was so easy after the bevel set. Just a simple resting in my hand and flip. Oh my god, I don't know how I was getting good edges before. Must have been lucky, as I was never going this lightly on the finishing stones before. Its taken over a year for it to get thru my damn thick skull, but I got it now. Wow! Like a light just went on in my head.
Now I got 70+ razors to rehone to get perfect. Ha. Just kidding. But at least now I won't be struggling anymore. I hope!

I just had to share this with you all. Thanks to the 10% beers I've been sucking on this evening, and for all the guys that just kept telling me the same thing over and over and over. I'd post up there names but the list would be too long! I think the beers must have helped clear my mind or something. LOL.

Thank you all for pounding it into my head. It finally sunk in.

Congrats! BTW, you should always finish with this kind of light pressure on every stone before moving on to the next grit.

Cheers, Steve

Who knew "weight of the blade pressure" actually meant that?

Congrats on your epiphany!

Id have to say that it was probably less than the weight of the blade. Guess ive been flexing the edge most of the time.

It’s always nice when the light comes on.
:-)

I think what made it all come together was finding a comfortable way to hold the razor to get this light of a touch. Not so much gripping it but resting it in my hand.

Gasman vs. Hone 1:0

Originally Posted by Gasman

I think what made it all come together was finding a comfortable way to hold the razor to get this light of a touch. Not so much gripping it but resting it in my hand.

Grip is a tough expression because with razors we rarely want to hold it that tightly, neither while shaving nor honing.
:-)

We've all had the moment!! Congratulations!

Great to hear!

The thing I'm struggling with as I read this thread is the other threads that talk about a "eureka" moment that others talk about when they discover how to torque the razor so as to put more pressure on the edge while honing. I'm trying to reconcile that concept with the "weight of the blade only" concept.

Is this maybe a Phase 1 vs Phase 2 thing? That is, with any particular hone, you do put some weight, and some torque, on the blade during Phase 1, and then you finish with "weight of the blade only" (or WBO as I am going to call it) for a few strokes, in Phase 2?