Honing Heels Part II: Do You Bother?
For those of you who work on eBay specials a lot, how much of the heel do you try to get sharp? Some razors seem like they are designed to be sharpened all the way to the heel, but I wonder about others.
A couple of razors I'm working on right now look like the last 1/4 inch or so was never sharpened--it's almost squared off, like that portion was ground at a 90-degree angle.
On other razors, the stabilizers meet the sharpened portion of the blade in such a way that the edge seems to be impossible to sharpen.
Ideally, I'd like to get all my blades HHT sharp along every millimeter. But it doesn't seem possible on some razors. How much of the heel needs to be sharpened for a blade to be acceptable?
Josh