I'm working on this Thiers Issard Le Gnome. It was a real rust bucket. I spent a few hours today polishing it with flitz and honing it. Just trying various stones I have collected over the last few months. Experimenting. Not really trying to set a bevel yet. Just cleaning it up enough so I could see what I was working with.
I spotted a particularly troublesome area and before I start real low grit work I wanted to get some opinions. I wanted to avoid sand paper as much as possible on the finish because I like the patina. But there is some pitting near the edge that might need more attention than scrubbing with polish. And the bevel appears to be crooked at that spot as well and I can't quite figure out why. The razor is less wedgie than I thought before I started cleaning it up. But now that a bevel is starting to form I can see that it's more than half hollow, just very subtly done.
Anyways. I want to preserve some patina but get the bevel near the heel fixed and stabilize that pitting. How should I attack it? Just go for it with my 1k stone and see what happens? Or do I need to address the pitting more before trying to set a bevel?
Thank you B&B
I spotted a particularly troublesome area and before I start real low grit work I wanted to get some opinions. I wanted to avoid sand paper as much as possible on the finish because I like the patina. But there is some pitting near the edge that might need more attention than scrubbing with polish. And the bevel appears to be crooked at that spot as well and I can't quite figure out why. The razor is less wedgie than I thought before I started cleaning it up. But now that a bevel is starting to form I can see that it's more than half hollow, just very subtly done.
Anyways. I want to preserve some patina but get the bevel near the heel fixed and stabilize that pitting. How should I attack it? Just go for it with my 1k stone and see what happens? Or do I need to address the pitting more before trying to set a bevel?
Thank you B&B