Quote Originally Posted by Lynn View Post
As a side line, I really am not a fan of dulling a razor to sharpen a razor. I would much prefer to take the razor as is and put it through whatever paces I think it needs based on my assessment.
I never understood the point in dulling a razor before sharpening it. Even if you remove a bit of damaged steel at the very edge, you are going to need a compensatory removal of steel along the entire plane of the bevel anyway, so to my mind, lightly breadknifing the edge prior to honing accomplishes nothing.