Thread: simple honing under the stereo scope

The 12K Super Stone/ Chrome Oxide edge is tough to beat, bullet proof daily driver edge, but there is more for those willing to look for it. That is the rabbit hole.

There is a big difference between a daily driver and a racecar. You can’t teach a kid to drive in a Formula One car, they are difficult to parallel park.

It is not old guys saying it is hard or magic, it is new guys that say that when they find it is not as easy as freehand sharpening a kitchen knife. The difficult part is identifying why rubbing steel on a rock is not working on a razor. The problem with magnification is understanding what you are seeing, what it means and how to fix it.

Don’t get me wrong, what you are doing is what this forum used to be about. Guys experimenting and posting daily their finding, thoughts and the debate that followed.

For a lot of reasons those days and many of those guys are gone. But if this forum is to revive, that is what is needed. New information for the new guy who will not search the library where the blueprints for the wheels are stored. There is not much new, in honing razors in the last couple hundred years, except better synthetic stones. Naturales and pastes have been used for years and some still work, very well.


Keep swinging.