Straight Razor Honing; 3 Methods to Even Bevel Widths When Using Laterally Convex Stones 12.19.2023

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[@tntltl]

Excellent video.

[@dnamol]

Thanks for a very informative video. While I hone my day-to-day razor on flat stones I have a few that I think would benefit from convex honing.. I'll take the leap sooner or later..
Kind regards Johan

[@tathra1156]

Great vid Jarrod. You explained the honing tecniques really well. Easy to understand. Thanks for posting.

[@thesuperiorshave]

you're welcome and thanks for watching

[@hosseinm4433]

Great demonstration, the more challenging method halfway into the video sounds interesting; I have a particularly difficult old french razor that I might try it on.

[@thesuperiorshave]

give it a shot, u have a 6.5'Ø-shaped stone, do you not?

[@hosseinm4433]

I do!

[@Martins-Shaves123]

Very interesting 👌 well explained way to set a bevel without bias in the middle of the edge . Back strokes on a stone ? I'm scared of edge burrs . Yours is a unique process, Jarrod .

[@thesuperiorshave]

I think when they had the Pike Ark wheels they started backwards and ended normal, but who knows, the info has been lost to time.

[@aaronsmith2433]

Why complicate the process with convexity when a flat hone does the job perfectly well without the unnecessary added variables?

[@thesuperiorshave]

In all seriousness, the question at hand is the designation of "perfectly well"; if you are perfectly happy, perfectly content, with what you've got, don't mess about! To quote the great Charles Oakley, "If it ain't broke, don't break it."
I thought a premium moving magnet cartridge rendered the music from my turntable perfectly well, until I tried a moving coil cartridge, which I thought did it perfectly well, until I tried adding a step-up transformer between the cartridge and the phono preamp,...
It is a mental sickness.
My own face, as I have aged, it is extremely challenging to get an edge which works well in the mustache area. Concaving the bevels, via the use of wheel shaped whetstones, was a large aid in this challenge, for me.
Master grinders do it because they feel the razor edge should be concave, toothy, and if set on a wheel shape laterally across the stone, has some chance to remain with more width than if set with a flat stone.