Thread: Lynn's Tips #2

If you guys ever receive a razor that has been poorly ground or has a lot of flattening of the spine and want to see how much honing you will have to do or decide whether to have it reground, here is a neat tip. Take either your Norton 8K stone or Coticule or whatever polishing stone you use and give the razor 5-10 X pattern strokes. Then, look at the edge and see if it is shiney all the way to the cutting surface. Depending on how far up the edge the shiney part is will be an indication of how much work you will have to do. If shiney all the way to the cutting part of the edge, you can start with a regular honing pyramid.

Good Luck.

Lynn

Lynn: I'd love to see you make this tips stickies

Originally Posted by trapperjohnme

Lynn: I'd love to see you make this tips stickies

Now that's a man with his thinking cap on.

Thanks for the Tip, Lynn!

X

thanks Lynn!! Cant wait till the next installment

Waitin on the next one!!

Lynn,

That's an excellent tip. Thanks.

Ed

Test. Seems my post count isn't indexing up.

Don't worry Ed, you already got your 400 Actually the site is a bit bugged this fine morning.

Lynn, that's a GREAT tip, especially for a psycho who spends hours upon hours on the hone (many of which are unnecessary). Now I can save a few of those hours and spend them polishing the blades I'm surprised some of us didn't get committed to mental institutions by our friends and families.

Thanks for the tip ...

Arnd

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I had difficulty with the Norton stones, the 200/1k, and the 4k/8k, as they seemed to cut really fast. I'm sort of a perfectionist on these things, as I have been sharpening everything from tools to knives to str8 razors over the years.

Anyway, I came across a company selling Japanese water stones. After I submitted my order, they actually called me back and we discussed the purpose for the stones. I explained that as slow as I could go, and as light a touch as possible, I wasn't achieving the perfect edge... I was coming darn close though. The rep told me he had stones from a mountain in Japan that had collapsed and they mined these superb stones. I ended up getting an 8k and a 12k.

To make a long story short, the new stones are perfect. They're very soft, and create a sort of 'mud' as you sharpen. This is supposed to be good. Anyway, my edges are near perfection, and this is before I even strop!! For anyone interested I can provide the company's url.

Mark