Straight Razor Honing Video to Come

**heavydutysg135** · 03-31-2008, 04:18 PM

This Sunday at my Southern California Straight Razor Get Together I gave a 2 hour honing clinic that was video taped. It will be posted here in full quality as soon as I can get it edited (and probably on YouTube in lesser quality) and covers all of what I consider the "fundamentals" of honing. The topics include stone selection, technique, sharpness tests, honing a dull eBay razor from scratch, double bevels, and advanced honing techniques for honing smiling and warped razors. My goal is to get this posted in two weeks or less, but it is going to take some help from others in editing and posting (I don't have any experience with video stuff) so I am not sure if this will be possible. Keep your eyes out for it in the near future as I think that you will really like it if you enjoyed my written guides.

David

**jlander** · 03-31-2008, 04:37 PM

That sounds great. Really anxious to see how an expert performs.

**thirdeye** · 03-31-2008, 04:41 PM

Boy do I need a lesson or five...

**letterk** · 03-31-2008, 04:43 PM

And how come I didn't know about this get together?

**heavydutysg135** · 03-31-2008, 04:49 PM

Originally Posted by letterk

And how come I didn't know about this get together?

I posted and bumped the details several times on both this forum and the SRP: http://badgerandblade.com/vb/showthread.php?t=35659

It was a really great time, hopefully you will be able to make it to the next one.

http://www.straightrazorplace.com/fo...ad.php?t=19300

**heavydutysg135** · 03-31-2008, 04:51 PM

Originally Posted by thirdeye

Boy do I need a lesson or five...

I think that anyone should be able to hone a razor with the fundamentals that are covered. It will likely need to be broken into at least four sections because of the time/size limits on YouTube.

David

**professorchaos** · 03-31-2008, 05:25 PM

HELLA COOL!

**dodi** · 04-01-2008, 05:21 PM

That sounds great - I'm looking very much forward to it !

**joke1176** · 04-02-2008, 02:51 PM

awesome, I am pumped!

**asbjorn** · 04-03-2008, 01:37 AM

Looking forward to this!, especially the piece on warped ones.

**Silb3r** · 04-05-2008, 11:21 PM

New to honing here so I'm definitely looking forward to this too (even though it's coming from the west coast

)!

-Michael

**Monkeyboy** · 04-06-2008, 09:33 AM

Anxious to check these out!

**Limey** · 04-14-2008, 06:19 PM

David - that sounds great. We need some straight razor stuff to match what Mantic did for the DE.

**norman931** · 04-14-2008, 06:24 PM

I'm looking forward to this.

**heavydutysg135** · 04-14-2008, 06:41 PM

Guys, I am sorry but it's going to be at least another week before this thing gets posted. I can't seem to get what was recorded off the tape and onto the computer for editing because all of my friends' cameras are either the wrong type (bigger digital tapes) or broken. Hopefully I can take it somewhere like Kinko's or Staples and have them put it on a disk for me so that I can get it up as soon as possible.

**Silb3r** · 04-14-2008, 07:02 PM

Originally Posted by heavydutysg135

Guys, I am sorry but it's going to be at least another week before this thing gets posted. I can't seem to get what was recorded off the tape and onto the computer for editing because all of my friends' cameras are either the wrong type (bigger digital tapes) or broken. Hopefully I can take it somewhere like Kinko's or Staples and have them put it on a disk for me so that I can get it up as soon as possible.

Perhaps other members have advice or maybe an expert in this area lives nearby. Worth investigating for the future... Regardless, thank you for keeping us up to date!

-Michael

**heavydutysg135** · 04-14-2008, 07:41 PM

Originally Posted by Silb3r

Perhaps other members have advice or maybe an expert in this area lives nearby. Worth investigating for the future... Regardless, thank you for keeping us up to date!

-Michael

Thanks, I am going to look into that too.

**AaronX** · 04-14-2008, 07:43 PM

Do you know what type of tape it is?

**heavydutysg135** · 04-14-2008, 07:48 PM

Originally Posted by AaronX

Do you know what type of tape it is?

Apparently there are at least two types of tapes that a digital camera can use. The older cameras used a bigger tape and the newer ones use a smaller tape. This one is the smaller tape. I don't know exactly what kind it is and this might not help at all, but it's probably smaller than the palm of my hand.

**waerloga** · 04-14-2008, 08:01 PM

Originally Posted by heavydutysg135

Apparently there are at least two types of tapes that a digital camera can use. The older cameras used a bigger tape and the newer ones use a smaller tape. This one is the smaller tape. I don't know exactly what kind it is and this might not help at all, but it's probably smaller than the palm of my hand.

There are several types of digital camcorders/tapes. Most common is probably MiniDV. Other choices are DV and Digital8. The smaller tape, smaller than the palm of your hand, is more than likely a MiniDV. Though it should say what type it is on the tape itself.

Last I checked my miniDV camcorder was working and I have all the other equipment and software necessary for computer capture. Alas I live all the way in Alabama. If you run out of other options, feel free to PM me and I'll dust off my equipment to confirm it's functionality and provide you with my address to send the tape to.

EDIT: oh, I don't have a HD miniDV camera, so if it's an HD source I wouldn't be able to help.