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So I went to visit a local member who has way more honing experience than me, and my rolls now shaves beautifully, just needed a little more work than I was outfitted to do. Thanks Charles.

Cheers...

Kinda what I thought, I guess that's going to stay on the shelf till I get some proper hones. Ah well something to look forward to thanks for all your help Rick.

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-Omid

Thanks that was kinda the direction I was going in. As a side note I was looking at the edge with my 4X loop (I have a 20X but I seemed to have misplace it probably in my sons toy box) and even under...

So that was an epic fail, I did sets of 10 circles of the "coarse" side maybe 50 total on each side and repeated the process on the "fine" side of the hone. I can't really detect any change it still...

Yeah I took it to the hones last night and I see what you mean about controlling how the blade touches down I'm thinking I'm just going to have to make some kinda handle so it hones a little more...

Yeah most of them that I've seen have cracked hones. I'm not overly fussy about finding an intact hone I was kinda thinking it was a cheap way of starting to learn how to hone. So really more than an...

So I bought a rolls no 2 on the weekend and to my dismay the hone is cracked in a couple places. I'm not really worried about it since I only paid $2 for it. But I was wondering has any one tried to...