Thread: How to sharpen a curved edge?

I did shoot him an email to see if he has any...not too worried about looking though.

Spencer

I for one, am glad this thread has been resurrected. I have a W&B smiley that I once attempted to hone. No joy there! I will have to watch more videos and try again!


Mike

Originally Posted by Utopian

I am right handed. I hone with the toe of the blade pointing to my left. The right side of the hone will be the actual edge and the imaginary edge drawn with a pencil will be one inch to the left. At the beginning of either a push or pull stroke the heel will align with the right side of the hone and the toe will overhang the imaginary left side without touching anything past that line. At the end of either stroke the heel will overhang the right side and the toe will be aligned with the imaginary left side's line. This is the same stroke as on an actual narrow hone.

Originally Posted by gssixgun

It honestly is the exact same stroke irregardless of whether you are on a 1 inch wide hone or a 3 inch wide hone, the edge and the spine must remain in contact as you adjust the honing gymnastics to accomplish a nice even stroke..

It just doesn't matter, but the myth of a narrow hone continues, we have many of those in this hobby

Sitting across the table from beginners and watching them wibble wobbly every stroke they attempt on near every razor and hone I doubt narrow or wide is easier.. Honing a smiling blade like the SRP LE is a learning experience that must be tackled by each new honer and they need to learn to do it on whatever hone is in front of them...

Think about this for just half a minute, many people have Narrow finishers Eschers, CF, Cotis, J-nats, etc;: the majority of these are thinner then a 3 inch wide Synthetic, as you hone a razor through your ladder you don't all of a sudden change the stroke when you get to the top do you ???? You keep the razor in the exact same relation to the hone when you switch from the Norton 8k to the Escher, *** well you do if you want a nice even bevel***

Took me sometime to get back to this as I had to get my 1" Thuringian out to try - you are both correct, when I thought I was overhanging both sides I was wrong. Thanks for correcting my error.

Thanks again for the replies. Rob, your willingness to revisit your technique to test your theories, and furthermore to allow correction is a testament to your integrity. I'm finding that SRP as a whole has integrity in abundance. Thank you.

On another note, I have found and ordered a J Rodgers & Sons straight with a smiling edge from Joel in the classifieds. Woot! My first razor and I'm looking forward to shaving with it. I'm sure it will be a while before I get to hone it, but I will be stropping it before my second shave.

Spencer