Thread: Honed vs Shave Ready

Originally Posted by Ryan82

For the honemeisters:

I didn't realize until now that some people just request the bevel be set and nothing else. Is this common? No intent to offend anyone, but what is the point of that?

Not common any more, but it really was in days past...

If you were to delve in the old Honing posts, you would find where some very smart fellows came up with the idea that Newb honers biggest hurdle was the Bevel...

So we all did this huge experiment, where we honed in the bevel for people that were having problems with honing, and 100% of them got the razor honed out, but more importantly learned just how sharp a bevel set should be...