I empathize with Holli4pirating !
It's taken 3 months worth of experimenting and hard work to get my Frederick Reynolds honed up! In the beginning, I knew it would be a tough job and elected to tape the spine to try to make the job a smidge easier. Well, after trying to get a decent bevel on and off for a couple months, I gave up....the metal was just too hard.
This week, I pulled it out again and decided that this was it...do or die. I said the heck with tape, I'm either going to hone this guy up or I'll ground it to shavings. I whipped out the 220 wet/dry I use for lapping and went to work resetting that bevel. I ground away at that bugger for a couple hours on 220 until I thought I had a good enough bevel set under a magnification. Moved up the the 1k-8k naniwas and finished up on crox and a sturdy stropping. SUCCESS!!!
I went in to shave to test it out...only to discover...
I like Wade & Butchers better....
:gaah: