Thread: my first honing experience

During the test shave I found some parts of the razor that where sharp enough and some that were not... I should realy do the TPT on the whole edge next time.. So I think I'll just repeat the whole procedure again... but its looking good now. I could find the parts that where not sharp with the TPT so I'm learning something as well...

Maarten

Originally Posted by mlangstr

During the test shave I found some parts of the razor that where sharp enough and some that were not... I should realy do the TPT on the whole edge next time.. So I think I'll just repeat the whole procedure again... but its looking good now. I could find the parts that where not sharp with the TPT so I'm learning something as well...

Maarten

Your on the right track.

So far, we didn't pay much attention to the fact that you're honing a wedge, other than that's it's "not easy" to hone a wedge. If I'm correct it has, like the majority of wedges, a bit of hollow, so you don't end up with a outrageously wide bevel. The main virtue for honing such a thing, imo, is patience. Less metal was grind away at the factory, so more metal needs to be removed by the hones. The bevel sides are usually wider too, which significantly disperses the weight and pressure that the blade exerts on the hones. This slows the process a second time. Other than that, there's no real difference with other razors.
Based upon your pictures, somehow you managed to keep the bevel panes fairly small. That tells me that either the razor has a decent hollowing, for a wedge, or that you added tape to the spine -which is a good practice for keeping the bevel width in leash on a wedge-, or... that your bevel is not yet complete - but your shave test luckily contradicts with that-.

With the hones you are using, I would go back to the DMT. The Blue is a slow stone. It's great for refining a keen bevel left by the DMT, but making up for neglected keenness off the DMT will take forever, all the more because of the aformentioned wedge issues. The Coticule with water is really only a finisher. It removes the high spots of the Blue-with-slurry pattern. That's its purpose, and you must centainly not expect that it will make up for any lack of keenness.
So bottom line: back to the Nickel Dungeon with this man! Don't let him out before he turns up with a keen bevel! (YouTube - Ramming Speed!