Thread: Bread knife to setting a bevel on a 4k

I recently did this very thing by accident. I have a set of Nani and I grabbed the wrong blue hone. I had a slurry built up because of what I was doing and used a good bit of pressure when doing circles and X strokes. I knew it would take some time so I was at it for a while before I checked the progress. When I did stop to check thats when I noticed I had the 5K and to my surprise I was making pretty good progress so I stayed with the 5K just to see. It took me about 4 and a half hours of straight honing (good pressure) before it would cut the hair off my arm. The next day I spent another few hours finishing the bevel and finishing the thru to the strop. It took a long time and my fingers hurt for a week after that but it can be done. I have been using it for about a month now. Good luck.

Originally Posted by Trimmy72

Attachment 101428Attachment 101420 What else could I have done with this? Please don't answer, what's done is done, there's plenty of blade left on this one. Forgive me Charlie, I know not what I do.....

If I have a blade that MUST be taken down on a 1000 grit I run the blade spine first over my grinding stone to protect the edge. This will let you take down the metal on the edge without breadboarding. Once the nick/chunk is out then I use my honing series to hone it back in