what to do with this spine.
Here´s a question for all the experts. Heard time and time again on here but unfortunately all the old advice doesn´t seem to be working.
I´m sharpening a razor for another user and the heel refuses to touch on the one side and continues to crumble when it seems to get close. I´ve tried the "rolling hone" method. I´ve tried with and without tape.
I´m leary of trying to take just the spine down, especially since it would have to be done on one side only. here´s a pic with it back on the tape. the tape does allow some vision of how it´s hitting on the problem side. I had to take with no flash as the flash made it way to bright to see anything.
http://www.procis.net/Razors/Torrey.jpg
Spots a and b are roughly equal in thickness. Spot c is the heel that refuses to touch on a good honing stroke, regular OR rolling. I´ve tried a smaller hone with no success. To make matters worse, This is happening only on one side. The other side sets evenly across and I am getting good results on that side. Additionally, every time I appear to get close to the entire blade hitting on this side, the problem area of the heel crumbles. I´ve resorted to the microscope and don´t see any obvious signs of oxidation so I´m stumped.
I don´t have diamond hones. I´ve tried going down to 400 grit wet paper on flat marble (I know it´s truly flat). Nothing I´ve done seems to be making headway. The only way I can get it to touch is by adding thumb pressure on the heel when that side is against the stone but that lifts the tip.
Should I try something new or should I just send it back with a recommendation of a regrind? My last thought is to tape the cutting edge and try a few passes on the 400 grit to see if I can get the spine to set evenly but I´m leary about this.
Glen F