Thread: Will a Shapton 16k take off enough to fix a tiny nick?

Hello. This is my first post, but I've read countless threads which have saved me from a ton of sore, bloody-faced headaches, so thanks.

I have a shapton 16k ceramic on glass stone on the way that I initially ordered to refresh the edge on my razor once in a while. Today I cut myself while shaving, and noticed that there is a barely visible nick in the edge of my blade near the heel. The damage is very minimal, and I'm wondering if the 16k will take off enough metal to clean it up.

Thanks,

Jon

JohnnyBoy,

Welcome to the SRP!

I don't think a 16K Glass will effectively remove any nicks in the edge. You may want to start back at at least 2K or 4K to work them out, then work back up to 16K.

If you don't have the required stones for that yet, maybe sending off your razor to one of our honing people would be the fastest and cheapest option.

wow thanks for the speedy reply. That's unfortunate... I don't mind working on the razor for a while. Do you think its possible to do it all on the 16k if i work at it for a long time (ie 100 laps instead of 10), or am i really asking for trouble?

I think you would be in for a rather long session if you tried to do that.

Theoretically, yes, with enough (a lot) of strokes, but the longer you use the stone, the greater the risk of error and stone wearing, IMO.

Depending on the size, place and severity of the chip, you could leave it as is, but I say that very cautiously.

Do you have a picture of the chip?

Unfortunately my camera has no macro setting so getting a pic is proving to be quite difficult, however I can say the nick is about .25 to .5mm and about 2cm from the heel. I really don't mind spending a few hours giving my razor some love, as it has given me so much joy.

Though I don't own a Shapton, just a chinese 12k-ish, all I can say is that I tried sharpening my str8s on it rather unsuccessfully. They demanded something more coarse to start with, and they didn't even have any chips - chinese is really just finishing stone, at least from my - very limited - experience. So my guess is that 16k will be even harder if not hopeless idea to try