Quote Originally Posted by gssixgun View Post

Look at this picture see the heel ???? see the tiny "point" starting to form??? it will become a hook if you continue, you need to take that Dremel that you have been messing with, and grind the heel back into shape... The razor is pretty worn, and the geometry is all off now, it has to be brought back into line or even if you get the edge to pop by using every exotic stroke under the sun, the next time you hone it, you will have the same problem...

Some hints on honing,,

1 hour of trying to set the bevel at one time is too long, Stop!!! take a breath and figure out where the problem is...

Anytime you do 100 laps of any style on any stone and don't accomplish something good, Stop !!!! and figure out what your missing...

3-7 hours of bevel setting on one razor???? Stop !!! you're doing something wrong and wasting steel...take a breath and figure out what it is...

If one system is just not working Stop !!!! then change it up, add a layer of tape , subtract a layer of tape, switch stones, switch strokes, but change something, heck I remember one of the guys used to go strop the razor then go back to honing

The more razors you hone the more you are going to learn, BTW the first thing to learn is that there are no set rules in honing razors, if you stay in the same box, you can only hone the razors that fit in that box
Glen, the point in there, to my knowledge, is just an illusion caused by the ink on the blade... That being said, I still took the dremel and rounded it off, just to nip any problems in the bud.

In other news, I win. The razor is now shave ready... I played with some different angles combined with a weird rolling X, and got /really/ good results... Also, interesting that you'd mention someone stropping in between hones... I tried -for shits and grins- stropping the razor on my palm in between attempts at the 1k, and it made -somehow... I may be imagining this for all I know- a big difference... 2 rounds of that and it was nearly popping armhairs. On to the 5k, again with palm stropping in between, and the arm hairs are popping like bacon on a griddle (damn, now I'm hungry), and so on.

Thanks, everyone in this thread, and the honing forum, I think I've figured out quite a few things with this razor and this thread.

Cheers and good night!

Jeremy