Thread: to breadknife or not to breadknife

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

Aye Carumba! I'm gonna find who the person was who started this breadknifing thing and when I do...

Breadknifing is not a normal honing technique. It's the nuclear option and when a nuclear device goes off you know the aftermath.

I'm the bad guy. If we go into the way-back machine, I posted my method of getting out severe chips or really bad geometry and explained it as using the edge of a hone or some area you didn't care about some wear and grinding down the edge like you were cutting a loaf of bread with a bread knife. There's not much point in trying to keep honing on a blade till you eventually grind out a geometric abberation of 1/16" of an inch or more. And this is still only something I would recommend on full hollow grind razors with really bad geometry or edge damage. With stiffer grinds, a regrind is in order.

Like someone said earlier, if the damage isn't so severe that it sticks out like a sore thumb to the naked eye, then you don't have much to gain by "breadknifing". It's only for major geometry corrections.

Whodathunk that idea would take on a life of it's own and become part of anyone's honing ritual. ?!?