I apologize if you've addressed this already.. what is the purpose of using a convex stone vs a flat stone.. what are the advantages/disadvantages? If you have already done a vid that explains that I would love to have the link so I can go watch it.. thanks
ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6yvjcMvWOD0.html Please read the bottom section of description field starting "THE SIMPLE CONCEPT HERE;" The advantage is to thin the cutting edge as much as the steel can possibly hold w/o crumbling. Thinner = keener.
Dear Sir-Did someone locally teach you how to set the bevel? I only ask as I have successfully sharpened knives and machetes for years, but still cannot set a straight razor bevel. Appreciate any information-John in Texas
No, mostly what you see is self taught or from the razor grinders giving me maybe 15mins hands-on tips each. The razor must be flush at spine and cutting edge terminus at all times.
Depends upon how long it was drifting into the nether region like that, but I'd favor trying just the finest stone awhile and a shave to see if it improves before going coarser.
hmm...no, not any more pressure than I'd use on a coticule. So hard to gauge these sorts of subjective views without some impartial inhuman measuring tool, but I'll say something less than you'd use for a pencil eraser employed on a linen paper? A soft Ark is a tremendous bevel-setting tool to me, and always has been, but when I began to use them when slightly convexed they reached the next level. The 2.6x10" soft Ark I've convexed I'd go so far as to say this; it is the finest bevel-setting tool I've ever used, a great feel and excellent speed and leaves behind scratches that I can easily refine. Perhaps the Naniwa 1000 Super Stone has a superior feel, and is just as fast, but you have to constantly clean out the swarf and reflatten it (and you'll buy it more than once if you're a hobbyist, no way for a soft Ark)...I will trade a debatably-inferior feel and having to use diluted Ballistol and clean the stone afterwards w/ soap and water over having to constantly clean out and reflatten a hone _during_ the bevel-setting procedure.
@@thesuperiorshave They can produce a very keen edge for sure. That's why I generally use 7/8 blade. It seems that I cut myself much less often with a wider razor.
If the blade is maintained well and it doesn’t have any significant damage (only for regular shaving use), can I just use the Coticule stone to hone the edge?
Right now all attn is being devoted to making a new-style (common/cookie-cutter) site outlay, but when this is done (hopefully by mid-August?), yes, we will at least sell 2 options; a glued soft/black ~2.5x6x1" combination (both sides made convex), and ~8x3x1" soft (one side convex). Someone out there in cyberspace purchased this 2x8x1" convexed soft ark (he'd mailed 2 of his own Arks which also were made convex here), so perhaps he'll chime in on the forums about their use (sorry I don't have knowledge of if he's forum-active and what his 'handle' would be). When you touch up that which was set with flat stone using the convex, you start changing the bevel (cutting in a new one) but you will (if approaching a previously-set-on-flat blade) begin altering the incumbent plane at the very apex...not like with "resetting" bevels using a flat stone or using tape on the spine (in these cases you'll begin changing the incumbent bevel planes 'from the outside in', so the tip/intersection will be changed last).
sure, I do it all the time. But if mixing flat/convexed, you can only go flat>convex, if razor was given convex hones at lower grits it can't be given flat hones at finer grits (those successive hones would not be touching the apex)
