Thread: What am I doing wrong?

If you spent an hour honing and the edge isn't touching, something is very wrong. Are you using magnification? My suggestion is to get a Radio Shack Illuminated Microscope for $12 and look to see what you're doing and what effect it's having.

At this point it's helpful to see what is going on
at the edge, as Howard has pointed out. On the
topic of price for optics, though, I recently got
a 30mm loupe from China at $2.85 shipped
on eBay.

- Scott

It was honed by a hoenmiester - and I tried with and without tape - also its the point of the blade that isnt touching

Lift the heel a bit if the toe does not touch the hone.

The fact everyone seems to be overlooking is your very new at this. It could be warped, or maybe your hone isn't lapped proper. could be a lot of things, narrow it down by sending out to one our guys here for an evaluation, Ron AkA "Utopian" is offering free honing, At the very least he can tell you what's up with your blade...

Sure, I'd be willing to look at it and I'd try to help you figure out why it's being difficult to hone. In other words, I wouldn't just hone it, I'd try to help figure it out so that you can re-hone it later on your own. I'd look at it under a scope and assess what parts of the blade are and are not being honed. (Though you're probably already seeing that by the marker test.) Then we would work out how to reach the entire length of blade.

If interested, send me a PM.

By the way, if it is an issue of some parts along the length of the edge are being honed and some are not, as revealed by the marker test, then it is not a problem of taping versus not taping.

so if i lift the heel a bit as I do my x and i get the whole blade to touch that way. Will that get the razor sharp along it's whole edge? I lapped my norton 4/8 k on a peice of granite, I read about that technique on this site. What do you use?

can we get pics at least?