Thread: Take two: Learning how to set bevel - again.

My best advice is to not overthink or overcomplicate the bevel set too much. You just need to get those two sides meeting at a close enough point and move on to the next grit. Believe it or not, as long as you are within spitting distance on the 1K, the 4K can and will pick up the slack - I used to set bevels on the 4K, for example.

Think of honing a razor like creating a sculpture out of stone. Bevel setting is like roughing out the shape and removing the big chunks of rock - you want it close enough that you don't have to spend more time than you need on the finer detail, but you run the risk of breaking off important features if you go too far. You need to learn when to let each tool do its optimum job: bevel setter gets the edge close, 4K will get it closer and start the polishing, and then upwards from there for the finer detail.

James.

Don't take this the wrong way, but it's always possible that the razor your trying so hard to bevel set might also give a honemeister that same trouble?
Maybe you are doing all the things needed to set the bevel on a razor that you should just put aside and maybe some one out there could send you a razor that would respond better to your learning curve.

I'm sorry as I don't have one, I have just a couple of what I would call good razors but i'm certain some on else might have one for you to work on.

IMHO, just a thought.


tinkersd

Ok now it is official. My 1k king is faulty somehow. It works fine on kitchen knives and crude honing, but for some reason it kills the very edge. I went back to the dmt 600 and did 20 light x-strokes on two different razors and both are now showing signs of bevel set. They both cut arm hair, pass tnt and are somewhat sticky on tpt. Good thing that i ordered the chosera 1k.

Does anybody have any idea what could be wrong with the 1k king? It has been lapped with the dmt and held in a water well.

Originally Posted by MikkoK

Ok now it is official. My 1k king is faulty somehow. It works fine on kitchen knives and crude honing, but for some reason it kills the very edge. I went back to the dmt 600 and did 20 light x-strokes on two different razors and both are now showing signs of bevel set. They both cut arm hair, pass tnt and are somewhat sticky on tpt. Good thing that i ordered the chosera 1k.

Does anybody have any idea what could be wrong with the 1k king? It has been lapped with the dmt and held in a water well.

It is just fine to skip from a 600 grit to a 4k grit and skip the 1K and see if it works for you.
The grit jumps from different vendors can prove difficult to untangle.

So try setting the King to the side and see what happens.

It may not be faulty it just may not be needed.

One quote from above is worth repeating.
Let the hone do the work....

A light touch takes a bit of practice.....

I got the 1k chosera, which I already love, to replace the king. It is much faster and allows me to use less strokes to set the bevel. The king was not faulty, but I did not know how to manage the bevel set with it. And I getting close, but was using too much pressure at the end. Thus, I always had some kind of burr that did not get thin enough to pass the tests.