| 1. Coat both sides of a 5 to 6 inch section of the blade with an ink, magic marker, laundry marker, tool dye, fingernail polish, etc. Use a blade in the center of the machine and one on each end. Make sure the blades are thoroughly coated including the root of the scallop. See example below. |
| 2. Cycle the hone for 3 to 4 cycles with the slicer blades running. Stop the slicer and inspect the coated areas of the blades. If the hone only removed the ink from the point of the blades, the hone stones are set too far away from the drums. See example below. |
| 3. If the ink is removed only from the roots of the scallops, and not from the points, the stones are set too close to the drums. See example below. |
| 4. If the hone stones are set in the correct position the ink will be removed from the points and roots of the scallops. A blade that is properly honed should look like the example below. |
