Thread: What are you working on?

Those have a more narrow blade than you think. With a crazy spine!

I gave-up on a cool one for a long time and finally got it going with compounds on the top of the bevel to reduce it.
Tricky stuff. Set it aside.

This is for sure a long term project. I'm still working through the 1K/4K challenge with a hollow and a wedge. I'm learning that I have a lot to learn about honing wedges, especially ones with crazy spine work. I may tackle the scales/blade work in the next 6 months, but honing is going to wait a lot longer. Or I may see if some pro honer is willing to tackle it. I'd really like this one to be a shaver and not messed up by inexperience and hope.

Beautiful etching!
A horror of a spine. Look at the widely varying bevel.

Put it up for display.

You're a glutton for punishment, JJ-Find yourself a nice 5/8" straight-edged solingen blade with no hone wear. The edge will come up so easily, it will practically hone itself IME. (Says the guy who loves curvy near-wedge Sheffields, but there is nothing so easy to hone as one of those old straight-edge German blades).

When I first started to learn to hone it was NOS blades or new blades, then I moved into more challenging EBay specials about a year after that. Same goes with restoring. Work your way into it. I have blades that were too good of a deal to pass up, purchased years ago when RAD was going crazy, that I am just getting to now.

Here is mine, Jelly. I had sanded and polished the turd, but it still had the issues your's has.
I quit when 4 layers and hours of work later, it would cut nothing.

Into the display case! https://sharprazorpalace.com/custom-...can-razor.html

I recently got it running.Years later. Still was not easy. I will see if I can find pics..........

Ok, I get it. This is a razor for advanced honing. I did say it's a long term project. I am planning to go back to some easier ones next and will get back to the harder stuff later. I can't learn to handle the harder ones if I never try, and then try again, and again...(I prefer determined, but some say stubborn)

Nothing wrong with determination. I suppose my meaning is that mine would never be honed until geometry issues were corrected.
Totally different thing.

Tenacious is the word my wife uses when I’m trying to solve things like this.
It is good to be persistent, but there is a point where you are going backwards. Learn stick with it, don’t beat your head against a brick wall.

And by all means, walk away and think about it on occasion. A pen and dedicated pad for the occasional idea.
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