Thread: Bevel Width

Originally Posted by kalwer

Yes my friend I completely removed the old bevel to level 0 and set a new one. It was a painstainking job and took me hours. By the way please guys tell me how long does it take you to put a new bevel on 1k. As for me it was approx 3hrs!!!!!and still it is not sharp on 1k not mentioning higher grits.

Yea, there was really no reason to do that. "Resetting the bevel" doesn't mean grinding the old one out. Considering that your razor sounds like it's about a quarter hollow, 3 hours is fast for that much work.

If the bevel was uneven to start with, I'm also not surprised it still is. An uneven bevel generally shows not only uneven wear on the razor's edge, but also uneven wear on the spine and/or an uneven grind. If all you did was remove the old edge, any other unevenness will still be there, and it will reappear in the edge as you reset the bevel.

That being said, unevenness in the bevels has nothing to do with how the razor shaves. If you can't shave arm hair, you do not have the bevel set. Try reflecting light off the bevel to see if it runs all the way to the edge. If it does, try looking directly down onto the edge (point the edge towards your face and hold the spine downwards in your palm) and see if you can see light reflecting straight back at you (a lamp or light above or behind your head will help). If you can, even if the bevels run to the edge, your razor is still blunt from being breadknifed - I would guess this is the case.

Maskwa ,just for the future, what 220 grit stone would you recommend?. With this 1k I have now,I am close to slicing my wrists with this junk Iam working on.

I use a Norton 220, and I also use a Naniwa 400. I haven't tried many in that low grit range, but these two serve me very well.

My God, what a scary thread. Maybe we should move it to the restoration section?

I would be afraid to evaluate my razors after 1K. To me that would be like testing a new airplane before I put the wings on.

Good luck to you.

Personally, whoever brought up the whole topic of breadknifing a razor I think did a grave disservice to people. There are too many out there who think it's just another honing method when in fact it isn't. I wonder how many guys do it and go too far.

Originally Posted by kalwer

Maskwa ,just for the future, what 220 grit stone would you recommend?. With this 1k I have now,I am close to slicing my wrists with this junk Iam working on.

A Norton 220 will work great. Go easy though.

I recently worked on a 6/8 Cases Aces which had a 1/8 crack in the middle of the blade(perpendicular to the length). I gently Breadknifed it down 1/8 of an inch on my 220 Grit stone, then rebuilt the bevel on the 220. Then on to the 1000, 4000, 8000 and 10 000 grit stones. At the new 5/8, it makes for one of the best shavers in my collection. And it looks pretty too.

Now, I could have simply kept working the bevel with tape until it was beyond the damage, but that would have taken too long.

Just an example where I've used breadknifing successfully.

Man, you are doing some serious metal removal. Personally, I would have passed that up for an easier project.