How do I fix this?

[Judge Mental]

Newbie here, so I'll apologize in advance if this is frequently covered.

So, I put my first slice into my strop. I did a decent job of repairing the strop, but that's not what I'm most concerned about. Where the blade caught the strop, the edge has now slightly rolled over. You can see it without magnification. When I strop now, there's a 5mm portion of the edge that is scraping on the surface of the strop and removing some of the finish.

To fix this, do I need to run this backward across a hone (a strop motion, with spine leading) in order to unroll the edge before it's properly honed? How do you guys usually fix a minor issue like this?

[BEAR DEN]

I'm new also so take my advice with a grain of salt. I have a Spyderco ultra fine hone. What I would do is make light passes on the hone until the roll was not visable.
Then I would strop it with linen then leather. As to the direction, I don't run my blades with the spine leading but that doesn't mean it's wrong.
Hopefully someone with more experience then me can give you more advice.

[SavantStrike]

I'm new also so take my advice with a grain of salt. I have a Spyderco ultra fine hone. What I would do is make light passes on the hone until the roll was not visable.
Then I would strop it with linen then leather. As to the direction, I don't run my blades with the spine leading but that doesn't mean it's wrong.
Hopefully someone with more experience then me can give you more advice.

I think he was saying run it spine leading to remove the roll.

I'm new too so I have no idea, but if it the fix does involve honing, it probably does require a spine leading stroke unless he feels like setting a new bevel, etc...

[Judge Mental]

Thanks for chiming in on this, guys.

Yeah, I'm trying to avoid having to reset the bevel and hope that a stroke or two with the spine leading may straighten out the edge well enough so that I can just touch it up and go.

[SavantStrike]

Thanks for chiming in on this, guys.

Yeah, I'm trying to avoid having to reset the bevel and hope that a stroke or two with the spine leading may straighten out the edge well enough so that I can just touch it up and go.

I'm hoping so for your sake too, but I would recommend you wait to hear from someone who actually knows that they're doing to tell you to do it. I'm still not finished honing my first blade yet (though it's getting there!) and have never worked with a rolled edge.

Personally if it were my razor, providing it wasn't an ultra fancy razor I was worried about killing, and provided I had another razor to use in the event that the experiment went bad, I would try doing exactly what you just proposed. I would shave with it afterwards and see if it was okay, and if it wasn't I would see if it just needed a touch up honing. If that failed then I would consign myself to doing things all over again. There might be another trick, IDK.

[adonnellyr]

I think what you mention about honing it backward is what you're supposed to do, but I don't even hone my own straights. I just seem to remember reading something about this before...

[Judge Mental]

Bumping this, in case some of the experienced guys haven't seen it yet. I'll really appreciate getting some advice on this.

[Fnord5]

Hone, spine leading.

Light to no pressure(for a novice, no pressure is more likely a medium pressure)

Let the weight of the blade do the work, and do not forget the other side. keep it even.

[Judge Mental]

Hone, spine leading.

Light to no pressure(for a novice, no pressure is more likely a medium pressure)

Let the weight of the blade do the work, and do not forget the other side. keep it even.

Thanks! I'll give it a try. I'm guessing that just a few strokes is all that's needed.

I've made more than my share of newbie mistakes, so now I'm going to seek advice before I do anything tricky. Oh, if only I had adopted that attitude a few months ago.

[Fnord5]

Thanks! I'll give it a try. I'm guessing that just a few strokes is all that's needed.

I've made more than my share of newbie mistakes, so now I'm going to seek advice before I do anything tricky. Oh, if only I had adopted that attitude a few months ago.

Unless you chip the blade, or crack it, newb mistakes can be undone.
I cannot say that this will unroll the edge, but it will put as much metal back in the right place as possible, and either way, a bevel must be established.

[leighton]

Use a kitchen steel and move the blade spine leading. If that doesn't work go hone it.