Printable View
when you are doing touch up lapping, do you do the "drawing a pencil" grid thing or do you just rup the hone on the lapping stone till it feels right? In other words, I assume it's good protocol to draw the pencil grid when the hone hasn't been lapped in a while, but if you touch up lap every few shaves are you going to scrape away too much of your hone if you do that?
Yeah, I go along with that.
Quote:
Originally Posted by loueedacat
For me, it depends on the hardness of the hone and how many passes I made on it since the last lap.
The Norton 8K I have wears incredibly fast, and if I make more than 100 passes I have had it leave faint pencil marks after a trace lapping. When I used it more often, I lapped the darn thing before every honing session, just to be sure.
For barber hones, and even my coticule, they don't wear really fast, so I don't get lap-crazed.
And my Spyderco's? Forget it!
:hmmm: Then again, your question was about touch up... I dunno.:hmmm:
I would try it with the pencil after touching up a shave ready about 10 times and see what happens! Oh yeah, don't forget to post your results also!
Use the pencil grids until you learn the results.
Perspective/attitude - To me the Nortons are an expendable resource that can be renewed and since they are the work horse hones they need to be in top shape. I do not try to make my Nortons last forever.