Thread: Macks Tips

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I admire your dexterity. I need to practice my ultra feather light negative pressure finishing strokes so I quit rolling my edges, edging the stones and actually make metal to stone contact on smiles. You know how you can get a DMT 325 to get 'sucked into' a stone when it's all nice and flat. Can you do the same with a blade I wonder? Like in the vid I saw of the stone on the bottle cap. See if the negative pressure can actually lift up the stone!

Originally Posted by xMackx

Finishing: The less pressure the better when finishing, some say just the weight of the blade but I get better edges using negative pressure of the weight of the blade. Meaning keeping the blade flat on the hone but supporting some of the weight of the blade with your hand evenly with your stroke.

Great tips Mack. I know getting the pressure right is a skill that takes development, one I am still working hard toward.

Stropping practice is really important for those without the muscle memory. Since I didn't and learned how easy it is to both roll an edge, as well as nick/cut the strop, practicing with a dummy razor often helps a lot to learn the correct speed and motion, as well as the draw to any specific strop.

I can't tell you how many edges I have rolled due to too little pulling pressure on the strop, letting it sag to much is not good, as well as too taught doesn't allow the sag required for the edge to make contact.

As with all things, practice, practice, practice!!!

Thanks for the tips!!

M

Originally Posted by xMackx

Finishing: The less pressure the better when finishing, some say just the weight of the blade but I get better edges using negative pressure of the weight of the blade. Meaning keeping the blade flat on the hone but supporting some of the weight of the blade with your hand evenly with your stroke.

http://straightrazorpalace.com/honin...tml#post938459

There is no such thing, never really thought there was, but I finally proved it to myself in that thread...

Light strokes are light strokes but if the blade is fully in contact with the hone and displacing water evenly on each stroke, the pressure is heavier than the weight of the blade...

Don't take my word for it try it yourselves... as soon as you try and get too light the edge loses even contact with the hone...

Originally Posted by gssixgun

http://straightrazorpalace.com/honin...tml#post938459

There is no such thing, never really thought there was, but I finally proved it to myself in that thread...

Light strokes are light strokes but if the blade is fully in contact with the hone and displacing water evenly on each stroke, the pressure is heavier than the weight of the blade...

Don't take my word for it try it yourselves... as soon as you try and get too light the edge loses even contact with the hone...

I was just trying to get people talking about some of the things I listed as I thought they were important things we never read about in tutorials. I like your videos the best out of any tutorials Glen, you seem to get to the point of things that matter.