Originally Posted by
HairSplitter
Greetings to those who possess higher knowledge,
I use a 4000/8000 Norton to hone my 5/8 Dovo straight. I can get it sharp enough to shave with but it still pulls on the hairs. That hair popping/HHT sharpness seems to continue to elude me :(
The razor used to be in the possession of my younger brother and I think he was abusing the edge :( I can see that there are some odd patterns on the edge and I can't grind away enough metal on a 4000 stone to make the edge uniform all across. ( No actual chips or nicks )
So I'm starting to think that the only way to get it back to its perfect edge will be to reset the bevel with a 1K stone. Then work back up to 8K again ( and a stropping obviously ).
Anybody have any ideas?