DJKELLY
Well-Known Member
I don't know to which I should reply, cow piss or wife piss or wire edge. Chris, if you are a real man, get the wife to SUPPLY the urine and she won't have any room to complain about the smell later. I'm sure she is a child, too, you letch.
About wire edges, or burrs--I don't know if I am backtracking, but there is a great book written in the early '80s or late '70s by John Janacek (sp) called "The Razor's Edge" but it is not about razors at all. It is about sharpening in many forms and promotes a double bevel. The first is formed on a very coarse stone at the lowest angle your blade will allow, even flat, and is gotten by half strokes on one side until you can feel/see a burr or wire edge. This may take quite a while on a factory edge. Turn the blade over and do the same to the other side, and when the burr moves to that side, one does only a dozen or so X strokes at a steeper angle on the finest stone he has to produce a shaving edge. I have been sharpening knives for my friends with this method for thirty years. The point here is that the wire edge is your indicator of a set bevel and will form in stages along the edge. When it is complete, you can be sure the bevels have met the length of the blade. It is exactly like the unicot method or dilucot after dulling and then shaving arm hair. Janacek was famous for shaving with an double bit axe at lumberjack competitions over here. He actually touted the use of a honing guide for those without tons of experience, which dovetails even more with the straight razor paradigm. Bottom line, the finer the stone, the finer the wire edge if it is present at all.
Yours Truly, Denny
About wire edges, or burrs--I don't know if I am backtracking, but there is a great book written in the early '80s or late '70s by John Janacek (sp) called "The Razor's Edge" but it is not about razors at all. It is about sharpening in many forms and promotes a double bevel. The first is formed on a very coarse stone at the lowest angle your blade will allow, even flat, and is gotten by half strokes on one side until you can feel/see a burr or wire edge. This may take quite a while on a factory edge. Turn the blade over and do the same to the other side, and when the burr moves to that side, one does only a dozen or so X strokes at a steeper angle on the finest stone he has to produce a shaving edge. I have been sharpening knives for my friends with this method for thirty years. The point here is that the wire edge is your indicator of a set bevel and will form in stages along the edge. When it is complete, you can be sure the bevels have met the length of the blade. It is exactly like the unicot method or dilucot after dulling and then shaving arm hair. Janacek was famous for shaving with an double bit axe at lumberjack competitions over here. He actually touted the use of a honing guide for those without tons of experience, which dovetails even more with the straight razor paradigm. Bottom line, the finer the stone, the finer the wire edge if it is present at all.
Yours Truly, Denny
