Quote Originally Posted by Bart View Post
If you "sawhoned" the bevel away, it will take many (an understatement, actually) laps to reestablish a new bevel. Bart.
It's interesting that this topic came up. I have a vintage coticule that has fine grooves worn in one of the corners where the previous owner would have drawn the edge through the groove/s.

I heard Howard Schechter mention the same technique. I have tried it on edges of vintage razors that have small nicks and chips (very small). It works beautifully. Drawing very lightly in a sawing motion at a 45 degree angle on a corner edge of a coticule maybe 10 passes or less makes for a perfectly straight edge under magnification and a great and quick place to start setting a bevel. Nicks and chips.......gone.

I agree with Bart to a degree, since you're widening the actual edge or flattening the edge this way, the amount of time it takes to establish a bevel I've found is probably about equal to the traditional method. Another way to accomplish the same goal.

To be clear, I'm not talking about a sawing motion until the original BEVELS are gone, I don't know why anyone would want to do that.

Chris L