Quote Originally Posted by 1adam12 View Post
I won't be getting my hands on a Dremel until around May. I took the frowns out of two of my restoring projects using my Hand American bench hone. Instead of laying the razor flat like honing I put it up on edge like I was going to cut my hone in half. I carefully sanded back and forth with 320 paper until I could set it on my glass plate and see no light. It did not take long but it sounded like nails on a chalkboard. Good luck with the Dremel Josh.
Maybe I'm not visualizing this correctly, but it seems to me that by the time you got the heel and the toe sanded down even with the center, then the edge would be thicker at the heel and toe than at the center, which should still be sharp.

...or, am I missing something here?

-whatever

-Lou