Thread: If all you know how to hone is a Wapi...

They all end up looking the same.

Can someone point me to good instruction on how to hone a smiling wedge. My used to be meaty butcher is looking very much like the worlds heaviest Wapi. I'm sure from a shaveability perspective I will be fine but I've definitely lost a lot of character.

Happily I am only hurting razors that require deep depitting and rescalling at this point and have not destroyed a mint collectable.

Please help... I have enough wapi's already.


Thanks,
Bob

To my knowledge a good instructional video on how to hone a smiling razor (wedge or hollow-ground) does not exist...yet. I am going to attempt to make a straight razor honing video at the Southern California Straight Razor Get-Together, and this is one of the topics that I plan on covering. Many people have tried to explain the rolling hone stroke, but it is difficult to understand by reading. If a picture is worth a thousand words than I think a good video would be worth a lot more.

David,

It just occurred to me that a three or four pictures with subsequent position of the razor during a rolling stroke may help until the video. I was thinking of drawing a schematics (as much as I understand the stroke) similar to the honing instructions in the barbers manual, but then I thought a few snapshots may be nicer. Of course that'll mean somebody has to take the pictures.

Or we can just wait a couple of months and get the video.

Originally Posted by gugi

David,

It just occurred to me that a three or four pictures with subsequent position of the razor during a rolling stroke may help until the video. I was thinking of drawing a schematics (as much as I understand the stroke) similar to the honing instructions in the barbers manual, but then I thought a few snapshots may be nicer. Of course that'll mean somebody has to take the pictures.

Or we can just wait a couple of months and get the video.

I could try that in the mean time, but a video would be much easier to learn from.

Do you strop a smiling blade as a normal one?

Don't forget to follow-up on this one when you have a camera.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who could use the visual.

Thanks,
Bob

Originally Posted by heavydutysg135

To my knowledge a good instructional video on how to hone a smiling razor (wedge or hollow-ground) does not exist...yet. I am going to attempt to make a straight razor honing video at the Southern California Straight Razor Get-Together, and this is one of the topics that I plan on covering. Many people have tried to explain the rolling hone stroke, but it is difficult to understand by reading. If a picture is worth a thousand words than I think a good video would be worth a lot more.

Excellent David, look forward to that.