Thread: Can this be honed out?

Cahrles you will see very rare someone uses barber hones up and down. usually it is x strokes.
while someone makes x strokes we had many people asked why heel of the blade almost doesn't stay in the stone long enough to be honed?
In reality if you hone blade correctly buy using x strokes your blade will have double smile.
Meaning heel and toe will honed more then middle.
i am not sure what Glen said (about putting finger in the middle of the blade)but if you put your finger in the middle of the blade and use some pressure and start to making up and down strokes in perfectly flat stone your blade will end up getting frown.
Because you are pushing down in the middle of the blade and tip and heel will left off from the stone(this is a little dramatic) . This will end up making frown. middle of the blade will hone more then rest of the blade.
If someone uses finger to put in the middle of the blade it has to be done without any pressure at all.
Just to help keep the blade flat enough on the stone.
hope this helps.