Thread: Desperate Honesterette

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I'm not sure, but that can also be a leftover of me honing the blade
with slurry. It was chipped and needed quite some strokes.

I like to ensure that my edges look like "black ice" when I'm done honing them. That requires an off angle look. Another perspective on the same idea is that the bevel shines back, mirror like, when you twist it in light.

I guess what I'm suggesting is that the way the bevel looks off angle is more important than what it looks like straight on. If you can see a scratch from an off angle then it must be way deep . . .

after it is stropped there should be a gentle almost imperceptible shadow on the edge.