Thread: Finally getting somewhere learning to hone...and then......

Originally Posted by albertpotash

The only thing worse than the slow motion drop is impulsively reaching down and successfully catching it.
Al

Ouch, I am very glad I didn't try and do that. The other thing I might have done if I wasn't tired would be to put a foot out to try and break its fall....

Shawn

Ohhhhhh man that just soooo sucks....

The only bright side is that now you get more honing experience

Oh BTW the foot razor catch thing,,,, ummmmm yeah not a good idea....

Maybe I'll start wearing steel toe workboots while I shave

That would be a sight.

Jordan

Dont be scared to go to a real low grit, as long as you are careful it will speed the process up a whole lot.

Hmm...I think id try to catch it unless i had to grab the edge to get it, it you do it before it gets to much speed I dont think youd get injured too much. But then again my safety is ont always priority no.1...

Has anyone tried to catch one?

Update on this. I spent awhile last night taking the LeGrelot to the Norton 1000 grit side with the spine taped. After maybe 200 or so passes I had the chips basically gone.

From there I took the tape off to get what was left of the chips out and to set the bevel. This took many passes too and turned up what I think was throwing off my initial honing. One side of the blade ended up with a nice even bevel with light even wear along the spine.

The other side of the blade showed heavier hone wear right in the middle of the spine and that was really the only place then ended up with a good bevel. The front edge got a very small bevel on it but the back third of the blade almost wasn't being honed at all and the spine wasn't really showing any wear above those points either. The edge doesn't really look like it is warped. Looking down the blade from the edge it looks like the spine is uneven on the side that isn't honing well. There was sort of a high spot on the spine near the back of the blade and the grind looks a little uneven side to side. The contact point on the hone is different side to side on the blade.

I basically tried to hone the spine itself a little on the bad side to flatten it out. I took it to the 220 side and held it so the spine was on the hone with the edge just slightly above the hone and gave it a 10 or so up/down passes. That expanded the area showing a little hone wear but it is still showing more wear in the middle. Taking it back to the 1000 to try to get a full bevel on that side helped a little but still isn't there. I didn't do too many passes this way as I wanted to see if I should wear down the spine more on the bad side or if that is the wrong approach.

Any thoughts?

BTW, most of the passes on the hones were simple straight even passes since the whole blade fit on the Norton.

Thanks,

Shawn