Thread: Regrinding Blues

Originally Posted by WW243

I honed it up with many layers of tape, so many that it actually did not feel like honing at all, felt like something different.

I know your feeling, I have a wedge I honed with 5 layers didn't feel right honing it,
it does shave ok but the angles feel off when I shave with it, so now I have it back in the honing line up & going to take it back to my standard 1 layer of tape, so no more small bevel for sure on it then.

Yeah. 5 layers is too much, IMO. After 3, things get iffy!

2 layers is perfectly acceptable and going to 1 may take a year on the hone :<0) I start with 3 sometimes on big wedges but no more. If your that thin at the spine and thick at the bevel maybe start thinking regrind. I tried taking one to a true wedge once. That was the dumbest idea I ever had.

Originally Posted by Substance

I know your feeling, I have a wedge I honed with 5 layers didn't feel right honing it,
it does shave ok but the angles feel off when I save with it, so now I have it back in the honing line up & going to take it back to my standard 1 layer of tape, so no more small bevel for sure on it then.