Thread: so you mess up honing....

lets say you are honing your razor and things are progressing well and then the razor get duller. Maybe it got overhoned and lost its wire edge. maybe pressure or angle was wrong on a stroke or 2.

what grit do you go back to? do you continue honing wiht the grit you wer using or do you back up a grit size to recover or what? do you automatically assume you had a wire edge?

I'll quote Randy, as he gave the best answer:

>Use the back-honing technique until your wire edge is gone.
>3-5 back honing strokes followed by 5 normal strokes then test to make sure >the wire edge is gone. If not then repeat until it is. When the wire edge is gone >then your edge is almost perfect. Use either the 8000 or the Belgian w/slurry to >finish it off.
>Test your edge more frequently.

I'd do this with the 8k and then refine it with the coticule, but as Lynn also warned, don't do too many strokes. 10 should be enough to finish it.

dont backhone!!! its bs !!!anyone who disagrees should pm lynn...he has only honed 6000 razors...when we read these posts no offense intended we just shake our heads and get a good laugh! NO HATE PMS PLEASE

Oh god Clarman, your on a roll today.

What does backhoning do? Conjure up the devil?

Well guess what, I talked with God and he said backhoning is just fine, so there! And we laugh at your silly posts too.

Problem I have, personally, and I'm not quoting anyone else on this subject btw, is that if your not getting the razor sharp your rehoning efforts will likely be fruitless as well. Then what do you do?

I'll tell you in a PM if you want to know, I don't want all the other "honemiesterquouters" to fall out of there chair laughing too hard.

Its just like anything else guys, if you don't know how to backhone, leave it up to those who do.

I have never heard anyone say not to backhone. I also use it when I have a wire edge. Arthur Boone also quotes the method.

Use what works,

And I probably have more experience overhoning than anyone! HA :-)

I am not a fan of backhoning at all. If you over hone a razor, I recommend simply going back to a 3-3, 1-3, 1-3 routine on the Norton 4K/8K. That usually does the trick. Lynn

I think the point of using piramide is to avoid overhoning, as the finer grit removes the burr from the lower grit stone. Just use the piramid and don't worry about overhoning. On higher grits (8K and up) use very little, or no pressure...

Nenad