Thread: Bread Knifing???

Bread-knifing is a Restoration technique...

Down-stroking, or "joining" I'm sorry but Harrelson has no clue about razors, I would have rather seen Howard honing in that video so I refuse to call it that..

But down-stroking (Bart coined it) is used to clear the edge before starting on the honing cycle... You can do this on a stone or a glass, I find it very effective when taking over a razor that somebody sent me to correct their honing on, I want to start from a known point... It is also very effective for a microchippy blade right after setting the bevel to smooth the edge and then bring it to Sharp at the second lowest grit rather than the bevel setter... These are all just tricks, and also JMHO...