Thread: The proper pressure honing

Originally Posted by AFDavis11

That you're almost commited to your wife, or that you like to flip people off in style?

Bravo!

Originally Posted by nun2sharp

Bravo!

I second that!

Forgive my ignorance in honing razors, but can one REALLY do any good making is to light that a butterfly would be on the other end of that delicate teeter totter? I know that a light touch is good, and I have learned that in my knife sharpening on my 1x30 belt sander, but somewhere, you have to have enough pressure to remove metal don't you?

I saved the video and until now, never noticed the ring finger was switched to his middle finger. I SAW this video on another forum that linked it back to here. They all applaud and praise this video for the light touch, but I seriously want to know if that is being a little too light to do any good?

Honing is basically broken down into 4 stages

Bevel setting

Sharpening

Polishing

Finishing

The pressure at each of the 4 stages is a bit different...also the pressure from when you start a stage to when you end a stage is also sometimes different too...

Don't ask me to quantify that pressure I can't

I agree with Glen, of course. That is the right amount of pressure at the end of the finishing stage.

Originally Posted by AFDavis11

That is the right amount of pressure at the end of the finishing stage.

Yes !!! +1

Hi folks

Some comentaries about my video:

1 - It is never to set the bevel of course.
2 - It is maybe not to start sharpening
3 – I would say polishing and finishing even when I understand that finishing is better not exactly on a stone.
4 – It works for me to do the Norton pyramid.
5 – I do not know how does it work on other stones even when I do not see reasons that it couldn’t work.
6 – Works great to the maintenance.
7 – It is better to sin for lightness than over pressure.
8 – Consider that you can regulate the control of the pressure by changing the size or shape of the object you put under the stone.
9 – Definitly can help beguinners to regulate the “hand”.
10 - I Think there is never so much lightness when we are talking about a straight razor.

Make sense ?

And about my weding ring:

The first one was too small and Ive used it for one year on my litlle finger.
Than Ive decided to do the right thing and I changed it for a bigger one but that day was hot and my hand swollen. Then Ive decided to wait my hand and fingers grow and get larger with my age. Im still waiting. Anyway, I like that stile thing theory.

Thanks for this... great stuff.
I did not like the ease to 'tip' the stone as it teeters on the grommet, but it really does help define / develop the tactile mechanics at the finishing end. It's a good baseline to help gauge what level you do apply pressure.

gibbs: watching him roll the kamisori on its edge made me cringe.. but yeah, it seems ppl use more pressure when honing kamisori.. also looked like he went from a 3000 grit to chromium oxide.. interesting... almost ghetto even