Desperate Honesterette

**Kees** · 07-18-2009, 03:29 PM

Originally Posted by 0livia

Sham I did not tape at all this time.
The second bevel (if there is) is from the strop.

How do you strop? You should not create a 2nd bevel with a strop unless you keep it very slack or you lift the spine.

BTW re-examining the pix in the OP I do not see second bevels. The other thing that strikes me is that the bevel of the blade done by Bartisto is slightly out of focus. Would that explain the "absence" of scratches on his bevel?

**0livia** · 07-18-2009, 04:16 PM

I don't thin the strop sagged too much.
Hhhmmmm, thats why I'll take another picture of it, but actually I doubt so,
since there are some little dust particles on it that are quite sharp actually.

**0livia** · 07-18-2009, 04:51 PM

Ok, here we go.
Same light same angle, same everything.

**Kees** · 07-18-2009, 04:55 PM

Not very different IMHO.

**JMS** · 07-18-2009, 04:57 PM

Actually I think 0livia's is the better of the 2 by the looks of it.

**hi_bud_gl** · 07-18-2009, 05:00 PM

JMS I should agree with you and not just better look +sharpness too.

**JMS** · 07-18-2009, 05:13 PM

Originally Posted by hi_bud_gl

JMS I should agree with you and not just better look +sharpness too.

I would like to agree with you on the sharpness Sir but as of yet I have not shaved with one of her edges or the edges of the honer that she is comparing her edges to. After all, we are just viewing pictures.

**0livia** · 07-18-2009, 05:31 PM

Make my day!

I just do not have an explanation for the horizontal stripes on the bevel of mine.

Garry (among others) has bought a blade from me (the Dodge with stag) and said it was very good.
Bartisto said, it (another one, though) was not. .... and that people just do not have a reference of what it could be.

Guess I'll just have to put more work into them.

**Kees** · 07-18-2009, 05:42 PM

I'll tell you what I do: if after a test shave I ain't happy with the edge I give it anouter 10-15 on coticule, Thuringian, Escher or Hohenzollern and then 50 on the Nakayama. Then test shave again until the blade has either a satisfactory edge or doesn't improve after another session on the hones.

I only take the mike if I do not understand what's going on. I never look at scratch patterns but rather for burrs or microscopic chips. Scratch patterns are a function of the steel quality, hone quality and proficeincy of the honer or honeress.

**AFDavis11** · 07-18-2009, 05:57 PM

The base of his bevel appears to me that he was not using a stone at all.

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