Hello,

I have this razor here that somebody gave me to practice honing on. It's probably crap because there's no "made-in" stamp on the tang and the logo is just "neptune", that's neither here nor there really though because all I'm doing is practicing right now. The spine on this razor is absurdly uneven looking to my untrained eye, even taking into consideration the smile it seems like there is maybe 5-10 times more wear on the spine near the toe than there is near the heel/stabilizer. Unsurprisingly, it seems large portions of the edge are not even touching the stone when laid flat, you can see large sections of one side of the razor are still completely covered in marker after a few strokes on the 1k.

The advice I was given by Glen was to use aproximately 1 layer of tape for 1mm of wear, 2 layers of tape for 2mm of wear, however in this case it seems to me intuitively that you would probably want to grind the hell out of the spine until it's at least semi-even before setting the bevel at all.

Thoughts? What would you do?

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