DJKELLY
Well-Known Member
I hate using tape. All the fuss, the sticky residue and rubbing my stone with plastic. I also am playing with bevel angles. I recently boughgt a Toyo from Scott that works great and it has almost a 19 degree bevel. Being the ever crafty Caucasian I took the smallest size of the strong, spring steel, lever-type paper clip that is 15mm long, took the levers off, and ground off the lever loops so as to leave only a triangular shaped piece of spring steel. This will slip right onto the spine of the razor. It will leave extra space on the spine, but that is not a problem since when you put the spine on the stone it will rest on the lower portion of the paper clip and give you the additional spine thickness you want. The metal in the clips is .01 inch, so it is not quite as thick as one piece of tape, but it works fine for most applications. If more is need, just tape the clip.
As you can see in the picture (that took me thirty minutes to find the right code go upload) I use two of the paper clips toward the center of the spine to keep them on the hone. I don't use unicot much, but this will make dilucot easy at the additional bevel angle.
Recognize the blade, Urmas? Probably not in the awful pic, but thanks just the same.
I'm not really sorry for the lousy picture. It pissed me off that bad that Photobucket changed their format on me and I couldn't C/P the image code.
Angrily yours, Denny
As you can see in the picture (that took me thirty minutes to find the right code go upload) I use two of the paper clips toward the center of the spine to keep them on the hone. I don't use unicot much, but this will make dilucot easy at the additional bevel angle.
Recognize the blade, Urmas? Probably not in the awful pic, but thanks just the same.
I'm not really sorry for the lousy picture. It pissed me off that bad that Photobucket changed their format on me and I couldn't C/P the image code.
Angrily yours, Denny