Thread: An Incredible Honing Trick from Sham.....

There was another similar thread/video where a person put their hone on a bottle cap or something similarly small under the hone and honed like that. The idea is the same - you have avoid applying too much torque to tip the hone, which forces light pressure.

If you have a hone on a base, instead of trying to take it off, you can just take a rectangular piece of anything about one inch wide, lay it across under your hone's base (to make a +), and do essentially the same thing. Or if you want to go even lower tech, take two pencils and lay them about an inch (or whatever distance you want) apart from each other and place the hone over top of that (like a + with two horizontal lines).

Originally Posted by mainaman

There is always some pressure.

+1, varies depending on the situation and the what stage of honing we're in. IMHO.

I have recently found out that with no pressure at all, edge do not touch stone, i can see 2 different lines in my edge. I think if you do no pressure thing you should start at 1k

The honing series Sham has on youtube is great. I've seen it several times and I notice something helpful every time. One of the things I learned is the slight back stroke he using right before his honing stroke. It really helps hone the razor!

Why make so much confusion?
Kelly was absolutely correct
when he mention NO PRESSURE.
The idea was to make video and show to people easy way to understand how to use Escher stone.
Only finishing stage of honing.
Even name of the stone (Escher mention on the video)
Lets say you keep 65% of stone and make strokes then
you loose the idea. You can use the pressure and make strokes because most half of the stone inside your hands.
This method shows how much someone needs to use pressure and finish the edge.
Applies only when you are using escher and finishing the edge.
This is why so many people struggles to use Escher.
This is just learning trick .
you have to make strokes and see how much pressure you can put.
after that you keep whole stone inside your hand try to put similar pressure and finish the edge.
I never said Keep stone half every single time when you finish the edge on escher.
Lets hope now this video will be clear.
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