Thread: One small step for man, a giant leap for mankind, well I got a shave of a razor I hon

Originally Posted by littlesilverbladefromwale

Cheers Utopian, There are two areas that are a little lower than the rest, in two corners but I looked to see where the blade would be going and it worked out fine. I will remove even more of my lovely stone soon and make it all comlpletely flat.
BUT IT DOES WORK REALLY WELL

Actually no, DON'T DO IT!!!!

If you just have two low corners left and the honing region does not extend to those corners, don't lap it further. If you do, you will simply be removing perfectly good stone. This will slightly diminish the potential for it to look perfect, but there is no point in wasting the life of the hone making it completely flat. Consider if those two low spots represent 5% of the area of the hone, then you have to be sacrificing 95% of the surface to get down to the level of that remaining 5%. As long as your honing region is sufficient, just keep honing with it and occasionally lapping it to maintain it and in 10 or 20 years you will have a perfectly flat stone!