Thread: Uneven honing

i know the middle of the blade gets more contact with the stone when the stone is rather narrow but how can this be prevented? and what is usually the cause?

Actually if you are using narrow hone then you shouldn't have problem which middle touches more then heel or tip.
if you are using 2-3 inch stone and only using x pattern strokes then you will touch middle and tip more then heel at the end you will have uneven bevel.
Now this has been discussed a lot before
what you can do it.
1 use rolling motion
2.heel first strokes- means you keep blade approximately 120-140 degree angle to the stone.Remember when we do x pattern we do keep blade usually 90 degree.hope you get this one.
3 you can use narrow stones.
i hope this will help.good luck

Here is a good explanation on that in the help files barbering textbooks download. The one on honing and stropping. Comes up with the text sideways on my screen so I printed it out. Real good info to refer back to.

hay that's a good read..it has a section on my problem.... it looks like my pressure was wrong which is what i figured.
thanx

that happened after i butterknifed a boker red injun... man that sure took longer to even get the edge where it did not reflect light

Using light pressure is really important, isn't it? I found that out too a while back when I was still a real newb to honing. I don't know about anyone else, but I love using narrow stones (I have all of my nortons cut in half length-wise also) as I feel it helps with the uneven bevel problem.

Dave