Thread: Honing a new factory edge.

That was something I heard, that they are done by machine but I don't know for sure. Looking at my TI, it would certainly make sense. I just can't see a hand hone coming out that way. I wouldn't know about a water wheel.

If you want to make the bevel even you will have to go till 1k probably.

I have not had any exposure to a water wheel. According to Lynn they machine the one side and hand hone the burrs off the other. That according to the way mine looks makes sense completely and makes me feel a lot better just understanding what happened and gives me a plan for dealing with it. So far with just some light refreshing the razor cuts beautifully although I have some vintage that I restored that are incredible and at this point are at least neck and neck cut throats .(bad pun)

Yeah, Lynns comment makes perfect sense to me & I feel comfortable with that one. The only reason I honed mine is the same idea as a new stone. You always have to lap a new stone in because they aren't perfectly level. A new razor will be honed sharp enough to shave & that's all. I have heard that they don't do as precise a hone as they can because they are pumping out so many but that is only what I've heard. To me it didn't hurt to hone it a few licks & strop it real good when it was new. I didn't go through the whole honing process since it was already sharp enough to shave with. I felt more comfortable before my very first shave with it by doing so. It was like cutting butter when I did shave with it for the first time.