Thread: to breadknife or not to breadknife

well the one razor that has been toying with me, i took a look at it under a scope, and low and behold i find some bad spots on the edge, so here is my question, do i breadknife it till it straightens out, or just work it on the 1k till i have clean metal. any suggestions

Originally Posted by wvloony

well the one razor that has been toying with me, i took a look at it under a scope, and low and behold i find some bad spots on the edge, so here is my question, do i breadknife it till it straightens out, or just work it on the 1k till i have clean metal. any suggestions

If you had to look through a scope then, you don't need to bread knife it...

Think huge frowns, or huge chips, when you start thinking bread-knifing....

+1 with what Glen said, just keep on honing until you get to good steel. Hope you do not have the case of devil's spit.

Another +1 to Glen's advice. If you can't see it with the naked eye just hone it on the 1k. Breadknifing creates more problems than it solves sometimes.

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.

thanks for the info, i will just go back to the 1k, and continue to work it till i get to good metal. should i do circles or just go back and forth. other than that, i will work it from there

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. ?!?