Thread: Slight grinning wedge?

I received a new toy from eBay today and have been playing around this evening. This is my first wedge blade ever so I attempted honing before anything else. I did manage to get it to at least close to shave ready and will try shortly. As far as setting a bevel evenly I'm wondering if this is typical looking, again no other polishing has been done so it really stands out as to what's been honed. I did not use tape on the latter stages of the honing so the spine is nice and shiny too.

I'll let everyone know whether it shaves but I'd just like an opinion as to whether this looks typical or not?

I have seen a few like that. I even have one that has been honed so many times, that it now hones the entire side!

I don't think it is typical in the respect of the size of the bevel. Any of my wedges that had bevels half that size I reground to make the hone up easier. In any case, yours has a ton of metal to play with and it will be a great restoration project and scales are very cool too.

With some polishing you can make that baby look brand new, even better if you give it a mirror finish. Great find, may I ask how much you won it for if you don't mind me asking that is?

Typically, one would call that a lot of hone wear but there's a lot of razor left too.
Usually the less the wear the smaller the bevels even on wedges.

Typical? no. If a guy brought me that razor ans asked me to hone it I would say no. It needs to be reground. Not just sanded but actually reground so that a decent concave is recreated that will result in a bevel width of less than 1/16" of an inch.

But, if your a glutton for punishment ( like most of us) then you can continue honing it.

Good luck,

I was using tape on it but couldn't ever get close to even on the bevel. I actually liked the idea of leaving it with the worn look but I've already took a lot of the patina off by honing so I'll probably polish up now.

Originally Posted by xMackx

With some polishing you can make that baby look brand new, even better if you give it a mirror finish. Great find, may I ask how much you won it for if you don't mind me asking that is?

The auction ended at $60 plus shipping

Short of major restoration work (regrind) try yet another piece of tape to that spine. You can shave with it, but I'll bet you'll have to use a pasted strop - alot.

I'm fairly new to honing and straights for that matter although I've been able to get several vintage razors to shave quite well. When you all say regrind is this adding hollowness to the blade or flattening it back to a wedge?