Thread: When did Breadknifing get popular?

I first came across this option while using my own intuition during a honing session one time. I believe it was before I was even on SRP and surely had never seen or heard about it before. It is very effective and SHOULD only be used as a last resort, but why would anyone try to deny the merits of it? How can it not be a common sense practice for honing if common sense was the only way I came about using it? I tend to agree with the seasoned honers here and their viewpoint on the practice. I wouldn't suggest it on the 'vast majority' of razors honed or even many of them. Why get so caught up in it though? If a new honer wants to use the technique on every razor and come across the pros and cons (which it definitely has) of its use by himself- he has every right. I just won't be the one telling him to do it.