Honed my first smiling edge!
I honed my first smiling edge at the weekend. My Mrs and 5 week old baby didn't appreciate the significance of my acheivement so thought I would post here :)
I really pleased with myself although have to admit the razor wasn't anything too tricky. It was a fairly new Henckels Friedore I got off ebay. I had to reset the bevel though as it didn't even pass the TNT. There was also a smile on the edge, nothing too dramatic but both heel and toe were off the stone when the middle was down. I used the rocking stroke heavy duty describes in his honing clinic videos (thanks dude!). It's now shaving nice and smoothly and I'm yet to finish it on the chinese 12K when it arrives today, so it should get better.
I've got the honing bug now. I think I'm going to buy an ebay special for my next challenge.........