Wide blades and narrow stones

[Colin C]

Tilgear are also doing a clearance sale at the moment and King stones are in it

 

[David C]

Axminster 800 (which I use) is King but rebranded as Ice Bear, the company of Shiro's beautiful daughter....

In UK Norton can be bought from Mike Hancock at Classic hand tools, who also has good stones.

David Charlesworth

 

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[Paul Chapman]

Looking at the original photo of the blade again, I reckon the problem is nothing to do with narrow stones or sharpening technique, but simply that the side of the blade facing the camera is not flat. Of course, it has no need to be - it's the other side of the blade that you flatten. However, from the photo, you are honing the whole of the bevel to create a new primary bevel and that bevel has now reached the side of the blade. If this has any high spots they are now playing a part in the honing process. The combination of those high spots that you are having to hone away and the ever increasing size of the bevel means that you are having to remove lots of metal, and it's giving you a hard time. If you continue the way you are going, you will eventually get there but I reckon it's just not worth the effort. If you re-adjust your blade in the honing guide and move on to honing the secondary bevel, you will have a sharp edge in no time. The primary bevel will come good in time.

Hope this helps :wink:

Paul

Edit: You could easily test whether the bevel side of the blade is flat. Just rub it on a known flat stone and any high spots will soon show up :wink: