Thread: At last a good bevel with Naniwa 3K

Originally Posted by kalerolf

If you want to learn. Buy a unsharp 2$ grapy razor from the bay. One whit small chips.
Then you going from the beginning, waste of your time i.m.o to set a bevel on a sharp razor. ( or little dull razor)
But its your time.

This one was a Bay special,
Honed by a fellow member here in Australia

It's a process as we all know
And we all learn in different ways

This is my way ATM

Sorry you dont agree with it

Take this off the boards and PM me if you really have helpful hints and so forth

While I do agree it is unusual to take a razor in need of a tune up and reset a bevel, I am impressed you had the stamina to do it on a 3k!

Besides its your razor, your stone, and your experience. Do what makes you happy!

If you really want to get into bevel work, get yourself a nice 1k. They really are much faster.

Anyway good luck in your honing journey! its a long one

I am in absolute agreement with you. Learning a new skill is far more important than preserving your tool (if you can afford it of course).

That said, kalerolf's suggestion of getting a chipped razor seems to make a lot of sense.
It's probably cheap, you get to practice setting a bevel, and possibly an introduction to restoration.

Re-setting a bevel on one razor one time will certainly not end the life of the razor prematurely. Good work getting the razor to shave the way you like.

Thanks you to the members for posting your thoughts and comments here
I was partly motivated to do this by reading the JA Norton challenge
Also partly by comments a bevel can be set on a 3K hone
And I didn't have a 1k hone to play with at the time

So I thought I would have a go at it
I learned a lot by doing this
And the razor seems to have no serious hone wear that I can see

I think it's time to pit this thread to bed now
Thanks again to the members

Rick