Originally Posted by
outback
Yes....that's why it won't hone. The leading edge of the razor has been honed away to the point that the stabilizers are now hitting the stone. That's bad.! It will keep the cutting edge off the hones until the stabilizer clears the edge of the hone. The stabilizers should "NEVER" touch the hone.
I too bought a new Dovo, best quality 6/8.
It wouldn't hone up on the last 1/3 of the blade, closest to the heal. Looking it over closely, I noticed one side of the stabilizers was never ground. I thinned/ground it out with the dremmel, and sanded it smooth again. Hones up just fine, now.
I'm not trying to deter you away from working on it. I agree its just a learning tool, I did the same thing when I started restoring these things, and got the same flak.
Your doing what you should, to learn, I'm with ya. Keep buying the junk stuff for now, you'll see were only trying to get you over the hump of trash that your crawling over, later down the road.
As you see, my avatar is young Frankenstein
I bring um back to life, after death, sometimes.... from salvaged pieces. :rofl2:
Were just trying to help make things easier for you, cause we've already been there, done that. Just trying to remove the bend from the learning curve. Nobody's giving u the run around, just plain, in your face, truth.
Once swallowed, it makes it a lot less difficult down the road. Just saying.
We want you to succeed, just pointing out the obvious. Carry on, brother.! Git-R-Done