Thread: Pressure while honing ?

"When you talk about doubling the pressure at the beginning, does this also apply to the 8k stage ? Or would this hurt the edge created on the 4k ?"

I would start without doubling the pressure and see how that goes. Before I doubled pressure I would just add a little more. I don't think you'll hurt the bevel but you'll certainly find your honing more difficult on the 8k side if your using undue pressure. I just recently discovered that the bevel of the edge gets honed on the inside toward the spine but not the entire width of the bevel as you use pressure, it bends the very edge outward.

Pressure is something that must be controlled carefully and avoided if you can.

Pyramiding is a good technique I think...both of these I learned just today as I'm getting some tutoring from Joe and Laz.

And hello again,

now I tried the conservative pyramid on the tugging razor - afterwards it sticks nicely to my thumb while testing and the arm hair sort of flies away when showing it to the razor In fact I could feel the progress on my thumb, which alone makes me quite happy.

Will do the test shave tomorrow to see how this worked out.

And just to stiffle my increase courage and show me my rank again I failed miserably on a second razor, which was a bit more dull (newly purchased Timor). Gave it the agressive pyramid and then followed by the conservative, as the result was not impressive. Wasn't afterwards, either. Some paste and leather improved that a bit, but the edge doesn't stick on the thumb as good as the first razor - will check tomorrow to see the shaving result but expect draw all over the place

As to the pressure issue: I used very little to no pressure, but this time had the fingers of one hand spread on the spine of the blade which gave me the feeling of better control on pressure and distribution over the blade.

Well, this just as a status report. Thanks for your kind comments, of course more are welcome

Best regards,
-axel-