Thread: Blade correction

Planning on honing your razors 100 years from now Steve? I admire your optimism.

Originally Posted by PaulFLUS

Planning on honing your razors 100 years from now Steve? I admire your optimism.

I sold my soul so I should be good for a long long time, that was the deal

Spine thickness/Active width X 57.3º = __º

If you use Kapton, do yourself a favor, get a tape dispenser from the Dollar store. Kapton is so thin it can be frustrating to pull off the roll and get on a spine without sticking to itself.

Plus, the dispenser makes it easy to measure how much tape you need, just hold the blade up to the cutter and pull enough tape to cover the spine.

Originally Posted by Audels1

Done.

Much closer and much straighter now stay on that until you have a solid bevel set

Originally Posted by STF

I'm probably overthinking this but, when I get vintage razors they often have hone wear.
I doubt anyone taped the spine 150 odd years ago.
What I do wonder about is how our razors will look in 150 years from now, we tape the spine so there is no spine wear. If we hone with tape for 150 years will the blade just get narrower and narrower, and the bevel angle must change a lot after honing with tape for over 100 years.

I'm not saying I don't use tape because I do (Kapton) but it's just one of the things that go through my head when I can't sleep.

Originally Posted by Audels1

If the the bevel angle is controlled by the spine and the height if the blade and we remove steel when we hone then the bevel angle will change over time as the blade height changes.

Just you give you more to think about when you can't sleep.

So now the question is when the spine wears it narrows and the blades height shortens given all this happens evenly (we know it dose not) then the bevel angle should stay the same for a longer period of time?

Jeez now if only somebody had thought about that and done some testing in the past

https://sharprazorpalace.com/advance...-theories.html

Originally Posted by gssixgun

Jeez now if only somebody had thought about that and done some testing in the past

https://sharprazorpalace.com/advance...-theories.html

I was just thinking out loud..lol

Originally Posted by gssixgun

Are you using one hand while honing ???

I think the reason Glen asked this is because if you are using two hands & pushing down on the razor to keep it flat you will create large & uneven bevels.

You only need the spine & edge to contact the stone at one point thru the stroke & that can be done on a narrow hone OR...

You can mimic a narrow hone by drawing a 1' wide line down one side of your hone & concentrate on using that section alone. Yes your razor's toe is slightly elevated .