Thread: Setting new bevel.

Everything rides on setting a " PERFECT " bevel. If this is not achieved, the rest of the process is just a waste of time. Learning to torque the edge of the blade, while keeping the spine on the hone and not putting downward force on it, is the key to honing razors.

You'll be surprised at how long it takes, to get a proper bevel set, and joined. Some ya gotta put down n walk away, come back another day. Its that, or send it into the wall.... I'm not kiddin!!!. Really, we don't want to do that, but some razors are tough.

Knives are like a sharp stick, good enough to put an eye out. Razors...were talkin surgical.

If you can get to a meet, that is the perfect spot for learning to hone, there is often good deals on razors too.

Originally Posted by outback

Everything rides on setting a " PERFECT " bevel. If this is not achieved, the rest of the process is just a waste of time. Learning to torque the edge of the blade, while keeping the spine on the hone and not putting downward force on it, is the key to honing razors.

You'll be surprised at how long it takes, to get a proper bevel set, and joined. Some ya gotta put down n walk away, come back another day. Its that, or send it into the wall.... I'm not kiddin!!!. Really, we don't want to do that, but some razors are tough.

Knives are like a sharp stick, good enough to put an eye out. Razors...were talkin surgical.

I, and my knives, take mild offense to the sharp stick comment. I'll have to play around a little bit with the technique on the stones I think. That slight torquing sounds vaguely similar to hitting either the shinogi line or the edge on a single bevel Japanese knife.

Similar for sure, same thing as the spine to edge setting the geometry, use electrical tape on the spine until you get a feel for using the the spine as a fulcrum, it will teach you proper pressure without unnecessarily wearing out the spine from too much down pressure. After setting the bevel with some torque applied run the edge on the side of your hone really lightly or drag it through a cork, felt, or a piece of wood to make sure you removed any possible burr then go back to the bevel setting hone (I use a 1k) and give it a few light strokes to bring the edge back. Learning to get a good bevel set is the hardest part of the whole thing, same as with a knife. The foundation of your house so to speak.

I too have honed knives since I was very young, somewhere around the age of 6 or 7. And found honing razors to be a bit more technical than knives.

I freehand hone, with the use of no holding jigs for angles. Its all done by repeating muscle memory, which to me is more difficult than razors. Also why most knives have a convexing bevel. So I give u kudo's on the knife honing, their not as easy as some make out, either

Some razors are done with a double bevel, hence...micro bevel.

Your gonna have a blast with razors, they'll really up your game on knife edges, too.