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11-21-2006, 01:01 PM #1Junior Member
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Honing this
This is little out of my budget, but really beautiful:
http://cgi.ebay.it/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?...3648&rd=1&rd=1
The most interesting aspect is the shape of the blade: concave one side and flat the other.
How to hone this kind of blade?
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11-21-2006, 02:03 PM #2Razorsmith
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That razor is gorgeous.
I'm not sure I understand your question, though. The blade edge looks very straight to me, maybe a slight smile. It would probably hone very easily.
It could be some distortion from the photos is creating an illusion.
Josh
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11-21-2006, 02:04 PM #3Loudmouth
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No the grinds are different. Looks like single concave on one side and wedge on the other. It should still hone the way a regular razor does but you'd need to remove lots of metal on the wedge-side.
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11-21-2006, 02:23 PM #4Junior Member
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Yes, the grinds are different, but one side is flat, and the other seems hollow ground, really strange....
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11-21-2006, 02:43 PM #5Electric Razor Aficionado
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It's gonna be tricky to shave with. As for honing, you would hone it like a japanese razor (which have the same style grind, though they tend to be 1/4 hollow). You only hone the concave side.
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11-21-2006, 03:58 PM #6Razorsmith
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Doh. Missed the different grinds. I thought Raga was referring to the edge...
Josh
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11-27-2006, 01:18 AM #7Senior Member
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Raga,
There will come times in your sharpening/honing career when you will be confronted with something odd that you haven't heard of or seen before. The key to successfully sharpening something like that is to examine the edge under magnification. See what the manufacturer/designer intended by the scratch marks in the steel. Then emulate that. Only way to go wrong is if somebody screwed up and sharpened it wrong and is then selling it. Rarely happens but I saw it done once on a hewing hatchet (an antique American tool for middle dressing of a hewn log prior to adzing). Anyway, I can't stress enough the value of examining edges under magnification both prior and during a honing session.
This universal truth will carry you to the perfect edge.
Howard
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11-28-2006, 07:55 PM #8Senior Member
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Maybe this was some experimental design by Puma. Regardless, all that matters is the angle created by the back and edge. As long as the angle is correct, it should hone and strop like any other razor.
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