Hi all,
Hope all has a blessed new year! I want to have discussion on killing the edge on a stone.Not saying that they're wrong for doing so , just trying to get different views .Some really accomplished honers do it. I am no cherry at honing but i don't have it all figured out either, not even close. I do understand the mechanics behind it. Whenever you hone on and go up to very high grit synthetic stones and sometimes we may have a razor that is overground or the geometry of the steel cannot support the angle. So this sometimes causes microchips and or wire edge aka white line etc this is caused also by too much time of one side or too much pressure, or to many laps on a particular stone etc.. So when they see this happening they cut off that damage by lightly joining it on the stone.
They then go back to the hones and bring the apex back on the finisher just shy of creating another wire edge. Imo there's probably always a certain amount of wire edge You just got to get a high enough magnifcation and it can be seen. Looks like to me jointing several times during one honing would over time cause too much lost in width of the razor by keep killing the edge. Why not just try and hone away chips or get as much as a burr free edge by simply honing as normal? Again if one kills the edge multiple times during each honing you're taking width off the razor and over time those joinings would in my mind put more than normal wear than normal honing would cause significant loss in width.
Hope all has a blessed new year! I want to have discussion on killing the edge on a stone.Not saying that they're wrong for doing so , just trying to get different views .Some really accomplished honers do it. I am no cherry at honing but i don't have it all figured out either, not even close. I do understand the mechanics behind it. Whenever you hone on and go up to very high grit synthetic stones and sometimes we may have a razor that is overground or the geometry of the steel cannot support the angle. So this sometimes causes microchips and or wire edge aka white line etc this is caused also by too much time of one side or too much pressure, or to many laps on a particular stone etc.. So when they see this happening they cut off that damage by lightly joining it on the stone.
They then go back to the hones and bring the apex back on the finisher just shy of creating another wire edge. Imo there's probably always a certain amount of wire edge You just got to get a high enough magnifcation and it can be seen. Looks like to me jointing several times during one honing would over time cause too much lost in width of the razor by keep killing the edge. Why not just try and hone away chips or get as much as a burr free edge by simply honing as normal? Again if one kills the edge multiple times during each honing you're taking width off the razor and over time those joinings would in my mind put more than normal wear than normal honing would cause significant loss in width.