Thread: A different slant on honing

Maybe, possibly, factories use / used convex hones and not flat stones because it saves on lapping. Honing hundreds of razors would need untold amounts of time just for lapping..

Originally Posted by JOB15

Maybe, possibly, factories use / used convex hones and not flat stones because it saves on lapping. Honing hundreds of razors would need untold amounts of time just for lapping..

Are razors really honed by hand in the factory or are the honed on some automated spinning wheel? I guess I just imagine the modern razor factory have conveyor belts of blanks cruising along between finer and finer wheels before coming out honed and stropped on the other end before some robot peens scales on them.

Originally Posted by planeden

Are razors really honed by hand in the factory or are the honed on some automated spinning wheel? I guess I just imagine the modern razor factory have conveyor belts of blanks cruising along between finer and finer wheels before coming out honed and stropped on the other end before some robot peens scales on them.

I think its Dovo have the spinning wheel and then onto the large Coticule.. TSS has a video showing this.

The “Dovo” convex hone has been discussed for years, and this same vendor was reproducing them in Coticule and Ark stones a while back. I know a few guys here purchased the stones, I think one was for sale on the BST a while ago, no raving reviews yet.

Now he is selling a plate to grind your own, which would be difficult with a hard Ark and sandpaper. Probably factories use these stone to hone warped razors.

If “Old Master Honers” have been honing like this for years, where are the stones and magic edges they produce. If the results were so fantastic, folks would prize them like fine Jnats and large smooth Hard Arks.

This guy is a Dovo vendor, I’ve not seen a magic edge come out of the Dovo factory lately, and I hone a fair amount of new Dovos.

Just learn the Rolling X, no magic stone needed.

Yup, I'll agree with the video most of the new dovos I ever honed certainly weren't sharp... & plenty have had frowns out of the box too.

Microbevels & convex bevels are just a compensation for poor steel or HT.

I would think it to be a quite harsh edge, being your trying to undercut a already, finned edge.

No thanks.....plain nonsense.

Though it could be easily done with a wheel, to say, SE & DE blades, but they don't, I believe their micro beveled. But I don't know for sure, I only shave with straights.

I have an effective technique that produces edge that I like. That’s all that truly matters to me.