Originally Posted by
Bruce
Josh,
This overhoning thing -- do you suppose that very gentle honing creates something like "steel foil" at the edge? A long, extruded burr, if you will. My mental picture of honing is that the finer and finer stones used progressively remove the burr left from the previous stone and that the pyramid honing scheme is used to help remove the burr expediously and prevent the development of the flap of "steel foil".
Do you think it is possible that we are encouraged to use too little pressure on the stone and that this enables the overhoning to occur? With more pressure on the stome, wouldn't the likelyhood of removing the troublesome burr be better assured?
:shrug: Bruce
Oh, by the by, I honed a razor for myself over the weekend and had to try it last night. I think I got it right as it was a smooth shave. I put the TI through its paces on the 4K and 8K Norton and finished it on a Belgian natural combination with slurry on the blue and water on the yellow. I know if I get too smug about this the new house of cards will have falling shoes. ??how does that go?? Right now I'm smoothly tickled that things seemed to go well.