Thread: Rolling X - I think I figured something out

Originally Posted by Euclid440

Yup, heel correction would have made the razor so much easier to hone and would have prevented all the damage to the Heel, Stabilizer, Spine, Frowning edge and Massive Wear at the toe.

The razor is riding on the stabilizer, which keeps the heel half of the razor off the stone, so the honer just applied more pressure and needlessly caused all that damage.

Re profiling the heel will move the corner of the edge, at the heel, well forward of the stabilizer and prevent the stabilizer from making contact, the edge will then sit flat on the hone.

You could reshape the heel or make the heel match the toe for a super smiler. Either way nothing will fix the toe. A Super Smiler will also remove the frown at the same time removing a minimum of steel.

As said earlier, this is not honing, this is repair work, so that it can be properly honed. Two layers of tape should make up for lost spine thickness. It is an easy repair, there are several threads on heel correction, all you need is a diamond plate or low grit stone. The steel is thin at the heel and can be removed easily.

Do make a plan/template and mark the razor with a sharpie, it is too easy to cut too much and make things worse.

It is funny, I thought about making the heel match the toe, but in the end did not think that it would look good. This was a before picture. I have "reshaped" the heel. I spent an evening going through all the blades and reshaping the ones that needed it. But, I am extremely bad at it still. I have not been able to figure out the stroke down the diamond plate to get a curve. It is because the steel is so thin, my attempts so far make a guitar plucking sound as part of the blade catches in the grit. So, I ended up with chamfers instead of curves.

The spine thickness is pretty even, though. It's 0.176" at the heel and 0.172" in the middle and toe. But the blade width drops from 0.59" in the middle to 0.47".