Thread: Slight ding

Keep looking at your razor. You can feel the chip on your finger nail?? I'm having trouble seeing it.

It's not real bad very slight at the point. I can still use it but if I'm not super careful it catches my skin and nick me

I hate to give this advice, if it's right at the point, and is very small, I'm not saying you should , but what I'd do is just take one of the finer hones or a barber hone and using the side of the hone( not the surface that you sharpen on) and just run the tip with the the nick on the side of the hone very gingerly and it should go away. Very gingerly!! Like you would do your finger nail if it had a slight nick on the tip.

Sorry RD I didn't notice that you'd written that the most course stone you have is a 4K. I think you can hone out a tiny ding with that but it's going to take some real time. If you go for it, just be patient - it'll get there eventually but will probably not be a quick 15 minute process. Might even take a few days. Definitely use the tape so that you're not trying to cut a completely new bevel (really tough to accomplish on a 4K stone). If it starts to make you nuts just walk away from it for a few hours. If it makes you want to do bad things to the blade walk away for a few days. If you start to go stark raving mad then send out some PMs for a honemeister. There are a few guys in PA and southern NY that can do it, many more within another day's shipping time.

Good luck!

If you had a second razor, you wouldn't mind the wait for repair. I am not sure that I would plunge into honing by trying to fix a ding on my only razor.

I would send it out and wait or see about picking up a nice mentor that will send a loaner. I had a super nice one that sent me two razors to use while he honed my first (and only at the time) after a session of ham fisted stropping!

Where to I find a honemeister? And ? R Pms

Go to the classifieds and look under "member services". That is where you find honing professionals. I'm almost positive you can find someone with a quick turnaround. If not, or if you are short on cash; I'd be happy to hone your razor at no cost to you.

Michael

Thank you very much