Thread: Kamisori honing question

It's extremely unlikely that the razor is ruined or that the initial honing has made any ill effect.

Since you're technically minded basically the reason to hone with more strokes (and/or more pressure) on the less hollow side is that due to the grind difference there would be more metal to remove because of the (increasingly) wider bevel (only because of the grind asymmetry).
If you don't do this, then you'll slowly be moving the geometry of the razor by eating more steel from the more hollow side.

A single honing (without abuse) should cause virtually no difference in the geometry. Even if you remove a 1/64" steel from the razor's width by honing only on one side (ignoring the burr issue), the change of angle is going to be about 1 degree instead of 0.5 degree that you would have if you hone ideally on both side and perfectly preserving the original geometry.

When the razor is new the difference between the two sides is at it's smallest. So, I don't think you should worry much about it.

Originally Posted by gugi

It's extremely unlikely that the razor is ruined or that the initial honing has made any ill effect.

Since you're technically minded basically the reason to hone with more strokes (and/or more pressure) on the less hollow side is that due to the grind difference there would be more metal to remove because of the (increasingly) wider bevel (only because of the grind asymmetry).
If you don't do this, then you'll slowly be moving the geometry of the razor by eating more steel from the more hollow side.

A single honing (without abuse) should cause virtually no difference in the geometry. Even if you remove a 1/64" steel from the razor's width by honing only on one side (ignoring the burr issue), the change of angle is going to be about 1 degree instead of 0.5 degree that you would have if you hone ideally on both side and perfectly preserving the original geometry.

When the razor is new the difference between the two sides is at it's smallest. So, I don't think you should worry much about it.

Good to read Your comments. So the situation is not perfect, but not hopeless either. I really fell in love with her and it would be really sad.

Despite the imperfections (I'm not perfect either) she is a wonderful razor. We met this morning and after basicly a single pass followed by some water shave for fine tuning, I left her with a wonderful shave. I personally don't like to use the word BBS as it is one of those not clearly defined terms that people are obsessed by, like the HHT, but I now sit in the office and keep touching my face (which know, I should not do).

It occured to me - but that actually is another topic - that there sometimes seems to be a bit of pulling, not the edge pulling beard, but the razor's surface stucking on skin. This seems to happen, when I hold the razor (more) flat and the surface, due to the geometry and the curved skin, also touches the skin. I'm used to hollow razors, but I guess a full wedge would behave similar.

Originally Posted by DDTech

It occured to me - but that actually is another topic - that there sometimes seems to be a bit of pulling, not the edge pulling beard, but the razor's surface stucking on skin. This seems to happen, when I hold the razor (more) flat and the surface, due to the geometry and the curved skin, also touches the skin. I'm used to hollow razors, but I guess a full wedge would behave similar.

Maybe change the consistency of your lather slightly or raise the angle just enough.