Thread: Help honing this please.

Grinding away at the razor is only going to create more, and worse problems.

I'm assuming its a wedge. Also not taping the spine. Taping a wedge is slightly different than taping a hollow grind. The tape needs to be trimmed to only cover where the hone should only touch the side of the spine. If not the hone will make contact with the side of the blade. All the oldies I've honed, required a rolling X stroke, or variants of it. And as said above... Strategic placement of pieces of tape to build the spine to an even state along the spine. (My preferred preference) and I've honed some real doozies.

Gotcha. Thanks for the advice. It seems I'm in over my head. XD

If your new to honing...yes.

I just tried honing it with tape. I think that this razor has bad honeware on it. 3 layers of tap made it sharper but the toe where the honeware is wont sharpen at all.

Your trying to do repair honing and dont really know what your doing. Sorry to be blunt. I know its tough but learning to hone is not something you do with wonky blades. That is for years of experience.

If your going to learn to hone then a 1k and 4k and 8k and 12k naniwa stones will get you started. Then add a years worth of time practicing on properly ground razors. Then you have made it past step one.

Good luck but you really need to do some reading in our library about beginning honing.

And after a couple years you can hone wonky blades. As at that time you will be able to do two or three passes on a stone and know what is needed to hone. Its not something you learn overnight or a weekend or a month.

We will be happy to help you learn, but find two or three american steel razors on ebay that are in decent shape. Buy some stones and read about honing. We will be happy to teach you.

That is a tough SOB to learn on. I think if you want to learn to hone it would be easier with a really nice vintage hollow ground razor. That razor is likely going to take some compensatory strokes to get a good bevel set. That is the foundation on which your final edge is built. I think you should set that aside for now. I’m not trying to sound mean or cranky. That razor isn’t really a honing project but more of an advanced restoration project. PM me if you want to email with ideas.
:-)
Shaun