Thread: What's your edge refreshing routine?

Originally Posted by Kees

The other day I decided to skip the Escher. I didn't like the resulting edge. So my hypothesis is that the Nakayama alone is too fine to get the edge back to the condition it was in the last time I honed it.

So do you have the experience that a too fine finishing hone alone is not enough to get the edge where you want it?

Not so much that the stone is too fine as the stone may be a gentle cutter.
There are ultra fine Asagi that cuts very fast. Often but not always they will have orange tones in them (yake) that are reminiscent of a sunset on the sky blue Asagi.
Making a slurry with a diamond plate will mix the yake particles into it giving strong cutting power.
Some of the faster ones can remove 4k & even 2k scratches.

Oh ! & Congrats to Jimmy . Are the pics up yet ?

Originally Posted by shayne

you guys are at a totally different level then me and I don't have all those different choices in stones actually all I have is a barbers hone with two different sides , isnt this enough to perhaps get the edge back into working order I know its not nirvana but ....

Of course it is! However: sharpness is addictive. Not so long ago all I had was a coticule and a strop.

Originally Posted by gary haywood

ti rasoir paste is exallant stuff for touch ups.i use coticule with water mainly . this works with 30 to 100 laps depending. if not i'd raize a minute slurry and do 30 laps and then finish on water , this gives a little boost. both would work ti paste or coticule , i tend to prefer to use stones, but the paste is realy handy if i need it.

best thing to do would be to touch up just before you need it, keep on top of things

I am follow this advice recently and seems to be working fine.
The TI paste is surprisingly smooth, not harsh at all.
I use pasted hanging strop so wonder if the stone would have much effect after using paste in this way as surely the bevel is slightly convexed?

Originally Posted by shayne

you guys are at a totally different level then me and I don't have all those different choices in stones actually all I have is a barbers hone with two different sides , isnt this enough to perhaps get the edge back into working order I know its not nirvana but ....

If the hone works for you than you have nothing to worry about, if you hang out around many of us for to long... Well lets just say that some AD's are contagious