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Stay away for a few days and you guys have all the fun.

First: Nenad ... YOU ROCK!!! :cool: Super Diagrams. Now do a few with a heel leading stroke where the heel is on the hone at the beginning...

That is what Joe is advocating and there seems to be nothing wrong with it unless you are like me in which case it will stymie the achievement of an edge. :D


Nothing, as long as the edge rotate...

As I've said coming off the close edge of the hone using the 'X' pattern always gets me. It only takes one twitch and there goes my whole edge. With the heel leading, the whole edge can be supported...

While this is true it is incomplete. Athough the whole blade on a perfectly flat edge (and we can argue about how many edges are perfectly flat) will assumedly touch the hone completely, it will not...

Yeah, there's that in theory. In practice it's a bit different. Like much about this it depends on the individual. Pressure is one thing. How much you actually use the heel vs. the toe in the shave....

I second that.

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