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Job, thanks for risking your neck for me! Thanks for this.

Rob and Euclid, thanks also for these points. And for that link, Euclid. I'll study that closely.

I'd set the bevel on the Revisor years ago when I bought it.

Yes, the Hart was shave ready when I received it. Boy was it ever nice and shave ready! Mistakenly, I thought I better start from the...

I wish I'd looked before starting to hone on it.

With the 10X loupe, the Hart is less smooth than the Revisor that I honed using the exact same sharpening routine, minus the bevel setting, as it...

Wayne, I'm glad you mention DrMatt's video, because I just found it and watched it before leaving the office.

I'd thought to ask if everyone agreed with his thoughts, but I didn't want to seem to...

Good point.

Ok, I'd say the razor is definitely passing the thumb pad test right now, so I'll go to the 12K, work it more, understanding the Hart is harder steel than others, and see how that...

Ouch, Lynn's latest (that I've seen) video on bevel setting (dated 2013) recommends 40 circles each side with 5 to 10 lbs of down force. Can that be right?

Thanks JT'.

Better brush up on sharpness tests to help me discern when I've done what I meant to do on a given stone.

Looks like you guys have saved me the expense of an expensive Shapton...

Ok, this spells it out that I need to be very reluctant about going back to the 1k stone, if ever. And work my way down to it, unless I know for sure the bevel needs a reset.

So at this point do I really need to work that 1k . . . or is it more likely the 5k to smooth out the saw blade I made of it on the 1k?

That local shop offers a honing seminar for 2 hours on a...

I should have done it this way, now that you suggest it, TC'. If I was worried that the bevel was set differently I still could have blackened it with a marker, honed it on teh 12k, then checked it...

Bob,

Excellent observation -- you're right, I usually go through the steps not checking for sharpness til I'm done on the stones. Then I check with a version of the hanging hair -- will it pop leg...

Greetings Gentlemen,

The good news is that last Christmas I was given a Hart Steel razor -- a thing of physical beauty, wickedly sharp and butter smooth to shave with. A few "growing pains" with...