Thread: Bevel width

Hi Guys, thank you all for your excellent advice and helping me to understand the relative unimportance of bevel width, at my stage in the game anyway.

I decided that trying to get to grips with setting a bevel on a straight and a smile at the same time was probably not such a great idea because i found myslf trying to apply the same techniques to two different types of edge. Maybe the same technique would work on a straight and a smile but that doesn't sound likely to me, please correct me if I'm wrong.

I put the smile to the side for today and concentrated on just the no name straight edge because it shaved the best of the two off of 1K.

I don't want to hurt the razors in my rotation because I am absolutely sure they are the best razors ever so I jointed the no name and set the bevel again. I will keep doing it until I get the perfect bevel. Rezdog said I should be able to get a close comfortable shave off a 1K bevel set. Great advice, now I know where the goal post is.

I also get the impression that unless a razor is being restored or a person is just practicing, a bevel once set probably won't ever need setting again. I bet I've opened a can of worms there LOL.

Anyway, I killed the edge and marked the bevel in red again.

I did a few laps up & down to see if I was removing the pen, then tried a few x strokes to see if that worked, then a few circles, and finally bit the bullet and had a go at some rolling X strokes. That did it!.

I didn't actually lift the end of the spine as I have seen a couple of times on youtube but rather just kind of moved the slight pressure along the length of the blade as I made the stroke. That was what I get the impression that gssixgun was advising on youtube but I may of misunderstood of course.

I jointed the blade again and made some slurry.

I did 40 laps of rolling X and then shaved some arm hairs.

I jointed it again and did rolling x 5 times without slurry and tested it again, then 5 more, then 5 more etc. I got it shaving arm hair after 4 sets of 5. I got the impression that the bevel should be set just and not overset.

I am going to shave with it again this morning but I have taken some pictures and as i am not 100% sure what I'm looking at perhaps you could have a look, thanks.