Originally Posted by
gssixgun
Not the heat I was asking about, the problem sometimes with buffing the blade is that it can leave the very edge quite ragged if you touch it...
I know this sounds counter intuitive to getting the razor sharp, but if you look at the very edge under magnification I am going to guess that it has little tiny teeth...
To start smooth after buffing the blade I just set the edge straight down on a Arkansas stone or even just glass, and with no pressure draw the edge across a few times... You can test for these teeth now without wrecking the edge you have with a Kleenex... Hold the tissue out with one hand and very gently draw the edge across it... A nice clean draw and cut, yer fine, and have just some honing problems to adjust. If the cut is catchy then you need to start from square one...
When you do a lot of buffing you learn to stay away from the very edge to avoid this and worse problems...