Thread: Wade and Butcher FBU

Thank you for making that, it makes life a lot easier.

Originally Posted by razorguy

I am very glad to see you are using my straight razor ruler!

Where might I find the ruler?

Joe

Yes, do tell...

Originally Posted by kcb5150

Thank you for making that, it makes life a lot easier.

An easier life is to know how to swoop something like this upon the stones, as is necessary. Too often, I see them honed straight and ruined.
You might consider letting it sit until you are good with this skill, if not already, of course!

Yes, where did you print that ruler from?

I honed it today actually. Most of my blades are smiling ones so I needed to learn fast. Windshield wiper strokes, pigtail strokes and rolling x are your friends with them. This one is a trickier blade than it appears but nothing being mindful of angles doesn't solve. I just need to take it through one last finishing step.

Originally Posted by kcb5150

I honed it today actually. Most of my blades are smiling ones so I needed to learn fast. Windshield wiper strokes, pigtail strokes and rolling x are your friends with them. This one is a trickier blade than it appears but nothing being mindful of angles doesn't solve. I just need to take it through one last finishing step.

I feel so much better!

The steel at the toe was a bit microchippy, but I think I got through to the good stuff. I finally got to a point where it was behaving on the finer hones so I took it to the strop to really make sure since I find the linen component can really expose that issue and it still seems ok. I am going to push the edge a touch more. Sheffield steel is actually easier to hone when the blade is still a near wedge imo. It takes more time, but when it is hollow like this you have to be mindful that it isn't brutally hard. Someone who was very inexperienced could eat a ton of steel in a hurry I think.

It's looking better now.

I tried Googling things like "Printable square ruler", "printable square scale" & a couple others & found a lot of possibilities but when I went to print one out, it filled the whole page which was larger than normal!