Quote Originally Posted by gssixgun View Post
The best way to find an overhoned edge is actually the TNT but it also can dull a perfectly good edge, so I don't recommend it's use for testing for an overhoned edge...

I would look under a magnifying glass first, then use TPT to confirm... Hard to describe what it feels like other than a little rough spot....

Those of you that are now thinking that you are going to go test your blades, STOP!!!!!!!

Overhoning is not a big of an issue as most think it is, I still haven't had one overhoned edge come to me for repair and honing, I have overhoned one blade, and that was me intentionally pushing the heel of a warped W&B back into line....
If your blade is pulling, skipping, or generally, not performing as expected it most likely is underhoned, not overhoned....
I didn't want to write a book here but if you start explaining this you are almost obligated to do it right...
You can actually really fool yourself on and edge to, if you don't get the bevel set correctly, and evenly, you can have an overhoned spot and an underhoned spot on the same edge....
Again it all goes back to having a sharp even bevel to start on and life is grand...

Back to my post above, overhoning can become an issue when two things happen, either excessive pressure, or excessive laps... But that description doesn't tell you much....
"100 laps" just start with that, on a Norton 4k, way to much, on a yellow Coticule ??? kinda depends huh?? on a Chinese 12k from what I hear you just might be getting started...
So the description really means excessive laps on the hone you are using, and some people say it is near impossible to overhone on some stones...
So that leaves pressure, since everyone "only uses the weight of the blade", how would that ever happen????

So then why is it that every time somebody's blade skips a beat, the first reaction is "It's overhoned"?????

Like I said, take an old hone worn POS razor, and set it on a 1k Norton or similar and TRY to overhone it, I think you are going to be rather surprised at how much work you are going to have to do to get the edge to finally fail....
Thanks for the details! Just to clarify, I wasn't asking because I think I have any overhoned edges, I was just curious so I would know for the future in case the question ever arose.