Newbie question

[Blade II]

Hey,
After passing my antique "Butler's Special Hollow Ground" over my Norton 4K, literally a few thousand times over the past couple weeks, it is still a butter knife. The stone is cutting, but is just not making the blade sharper. All I have is the Norton 4k/8k. Should I stay patient and keep honing or is another stone essential in setting the bevel? This is the third razor I have "restored." I shave with the other two, but it is not exactly what you would call close or comfortable. I have a really good strop from the heirloom strop company that made a hugely positive difference, but they are still not smooth shaves. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers.

 

[mdunn]

put some marker along the blade edge and give it a couple of laps and see if the wear is even

 

[gugi]

but they are still not smooth shaves

most likely you need to get chips out
a magnification could be useful.
if you'll be restoring razors you definitely want a 1000 level hone, or sandpaper if you're really cheap.

 

[PolsBirthday]

see if you can pick up one that doesn't need much "restore" and get it honed by a meister, then you'll have a nice basis for comparison for your own honing work(shave wise that is).

p.s. i shaved right off the 8k side of my norton for quite some time until i tried some diamond pasted strops a friend had, what a difference! mine should arrive in a little while....

 

[Utopian]

If you give up on your attempt, I'd be willing to hone it for free for you. If interested, just send me a PM.

 

[Buckler]

Take Utopian up on his offer and use Pols advice (On one of your other razors) and brake the back on the one you have yourself.

Use tape, wops did i say that, and you will make cutting a bevel much much eaiser. Once it passes the TNT, you can remove the tape and use the marker trick to see once you have the new bevel, or just stick (pardon the pun) with your tape. Just make sure that you continue to change the tape every couple of thousand a (but seriously chang it regularly)

Or as has been said you can use sand paper, havnt tried it myself but im sure it would work.

+Buckler