Thread: Makes you hate Dremels

What a transformation. Nicely done!

What does the reply Tc mean? I am new and acronyms can be confusing if you are not in,

What makes me hate Dremel. I don't. Ilove them, but they are a tool that takes time tolearn to use like so many other tools. Dremel is similar to shaving, time and skill and knowledge.

Originally Posted by karlej

Well here it is. Just some quick pictures on the back porch. The best part was the test shave this morning. Just a super nice shaving experience. I lost a little of the blade width because of the dremel digs in the bevel. Ended up nice and even though and about 1mm wide and something less than a 7/8. Took some bread knifing to clean it up and then started the bevel on a 325DMT. Call it 13/16 plus I guess. I like the thick tang to hang on to. Scales came out nice. Amazing for 100+ years old. Honed up on a 1K Chosera, 3K, 5K, 8K, 12K Naniwa and finished on a Suehiro 20K.
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Looks great...and frankly am glad to see the way it turned out.

I have a gorgeous 9/8 W&B Celebrated For Barbers Use, that had a dremel run over the blade face. Believe it or not, whoever did it pretty much left the etchings on the face alone, but made a mess of the rest. It's been with Val at The Gentleman's Den for a couple of weeks now getting fixed up, with some nice red horn scales, be nice to finally have that blade in the rotation, and seeing this one raises my hopes...thanks!

Originally Posted by karlej

Lots of info in the honing forums. Chosera 1K is probably the best hone you can spend money on for setting a bevel. I lived a long time with the Norton 1K. The Norton 4K/8K combo stone won't break the bank and it was also one of my first hones. Naniwa 12K for a finisher is also money well spent but you don't need it to get a nice shaving razor. In fact if you are learning you should stop at the 8K until you can get a comfortable shave then see what the 12K will do. If you find the edge a little harsh try several strokes on chromium oxide on felt before stropping. Knowing what I now know I'd buy the Chosera 1K and Naniwa 5K, 8K, 12K as a starter set of hones. You can move to trying the natural stones once you have mastered the synthetics.

Thank you for the info. I know first hand what your end product looks like, I would feel comfortable spending the cash with that knowledge. Was looking at some hones today, but walked away......glad I did now.
Thanks again.

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PHrank. It just dawned on me that a dremel would be a nice tool for polishing a blade using pastes of superfine grit.