Thread: Honing Sketch

Yes, it seems you could maintain an edge "almost" indefinitely with pasted strops, so i did some calculating and counted the razors i have already, and in theory, if i shave every day, i am good for the next 1,385,672 years, 9 months, two weeks, and seven days,,,,,roughly. I better get some more soap.

Some people suggest the strop doesn't even have to be pasted to get a long life out of an edge. As I have become more proficient at stropping over time I have certainly noticed my edges do last longer, though I do not think my skill level will ever get to the point where I could maintain an edge indefinitely off a strop. Besides that, it is too much fun to hone!

The technical bit to all of this is the definition: if an edge is not straight (flat) then by definition it must be convex (in the context of this discussion, though it would be interesting to see how much of a concave edge you could produce by starting with lots of tape and removing layers...). In a certain sense that is correct, but shaving and honing are practical skills and a more practical definition needs to be put in place IMO. There will be a level or levels of non-straight bevels below which the deviation from linearity is imperceptable - a radius of curvature so large as to be indistinguishable from infinity. It may require that radius of curvature to drop very substantially before there is any practical deviation from linearity, and that reduction may take a commensurate amount of pasted stropping.

James.

Originally Posted by Grazor

Yes, it seems you could maintain an edge "almost" indefinitely with pasted strops, so i did some calculating and counted the razors i have already, and in theory, if i shave every day, i am good for the next 1,385,672 years, 9 months, two weeks, and seven days,,,,,roughly. I better get some more soap.

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