Should have searched the forums first

[jeb]

I just finished honing my 6th razor and got a good shave out of it, decided when i was done i would get on and see if anyone has ever had similar problems.

This was and antique store kron punkt that needed alot of love. I have found it very relaxing to pull crap razors apart clean them up and put them back together (the next one i have to try making my own scales ). Anyways i could not get this thing to take an edge no matter what i tried. The edge was flat (no frown, no smile) so I should have been able to use a relatively normal stroke and it would not take and edge. Then I would use various other strokes and still no edge.

This razor had zero hone wear on the it. not even a scratch on the spine. Why would it not take an edge? So I went back to basics. Taped up the spine (2 layers) did 10 laps and 220 and 20 on 1k. Boy all of a sudden it was sharp, removed the tape and went forward and lost the edge i had just put on it. Put the tape back on started over and went all the way through the process and 2 hours later completed a relatively good shave with it.

I started looking through here and found that alot of people always tape the spine when honing. This would explain the zero hone wear. So best i can figure is when i was working without the tape i was putting a new bevel on it while the old one was still there. I understand the concept of a double bevel but i am guessing they don't work very well in reverse.

Anyways if anyone thinks they know what the (insert choice word here) I was doing wrong, I would be happy to take the criticism.

By the way this is the first razor I have pinned back together and it was actually kind of satisfying, never done anything like that before.