Should I be worried about uneven spine wear?
Hi all,
I have been intermittently using a Dovo Bismarck that I bought new some many years ago and honed it about 6-7 times (in about 5 years) on Naniwa SS progression 1k, 5k, 8k and 12k.
I recently reflamed this hobby and started using it regularly (every 3-4 days shave) and while inspecting it, I noticed a somewhat uneven spine wear close to the heel area on both sides. I don't recall if this is how the factory sent it to me or if I have put uneven wear on the spine due to wrongly applied pressure/honing technique, but I want to try to fix it if possible. The edge shaves nicely and it pops arm hair midway along the entire length. It also passed hanging hair test with and against the hair root along entire edge length.
Nonetheless, it bothers me mainly for 2 reasons:
- further honing will emphasise the unevenness even more and I am afraid that at some point will create a smile on the heel area
- my OCD can't stop thinking that it looks (and it will look in the future) unclean
I have created a hi res album on imgur that can be accessed following below link:
https://imgur.com/a/NurUMQX
My honing technique is circles on 1k (as Lynn shows in his videos) to set the bevel, and laps going further on higher grit stones.
So, what do you think? Is this an issue or I am obsessing over it without a real reason? How can the spine wear be fixed/evened out? I was thinking to hone it on 1k applying pressure on the spine area where the low spot is and/or apply some tape on the edge while doing this to avoid unnecessary edge wear.
Let me know your thoughts.