Thread: Need help! Honing a restored razor

hgers anothrt

Looks like you put a fair frown on the edge. You really want to stay as far away from the edge as much as possible when doing restorations. Especially on full hollows. Regardless, restored razors usually take the most time to reset the bevels. You're going to just have to keep at it with careful technique, unless you feel you can do some more advanced stuff (like lift the spine a bit - that's not normal honing, it's edge restoration).

And if you are going to hone "normally," this is one of the few situations in which I'd recommend tape.

Holli4pirating speaks the truth but something with the reflection was not sitting well with me so I got a closer look.

The bevel is narrow and the frown is around 1 bevels width,
Now I am still feeling the restoration part out but it looks like two choices here to me.

1. Use a narrow stone and light consistent stroke to hone it potentially increasing the magnitude of the problem over time.

2. Do the bread knife very carefully to straighten out the frown.

Now again a new to full restores take on this and I am very much so looking forward to the more experienced replies.

There is a definite frown there, all be it small, but it's still there. I would go with what he suggested. Try two layers of electrical tape and honing heel forward on your 1k or lower; heel leading the stroke w/ the razor at 45* on the stone (see gssixgun's honing a smiling wedge on youtube for a good visual demo of this). Once you got the frown corrected, drop to one layer of tape only, establish your bevel, then go to your 5k. Remember 1k-5k is a big jump, and 5k-12k is a big jump, so you're going to have to do extra work, and be sure to check the edge under a light to make sure all the previous stone's scratch pattern is gone before moving on any farther.

Here ya go, 3 parts.

gssixgun Honing a Smiling Wedge part 1.wmv - YouTube