Thread: Silver Steel

I have two thoughts: 1) maybe you are trying to hone these out to finer grits than the steel will support, so the edge breaks down the first time you use it, and 2) something bad somehow happened to the temper in the steel. I don't know how someone could mess up the temper without also cooking the scales.

Too much honing pressure could also make a fragile edge. You can flex the blade an end up honing away steel just behind the edge.

That's all I can think of. Good luck getting them to shave.

Thanks for the suggestion about the hone. I admit I am not so experienced with hone types as I am with razors, so that can be the reason for these bad edges. Since I'm building a collection of antique (read pre-Madrid) razors I also look from hones from the same period. Probably they are not that good anymore. I will look for better hones