Thread: How did barbers hone a wedge in the olden days?

Originally Posted by gssixgun

So you are using the 3 1k surfaces, why would you need this ???

Again, this may only relate to woodworking... We use a 1k stone for quick material removal anyways. So the coarsest stone would be the obvious and cheapest stone to achieve flat with. I then use the 1k stones to flatten the 4k and 8k stones.

Originally Posted by gssixgun

I think everybody realizes that the 3 stone method works (even if we don't use it for SR honing ), the question seems to be "Why the 2 stone method doesn't"

Think Rock, Paper, Scissors. Great game because each option wins against one other, but also looses to one other.

Now lets play Rock, Paper. Super lame game because Paper always covers rock, and rock can never win.

With two stones they will wear to mate perfectly to each other, but a perfect match is not necessarily flat. Think spoons.

This is a really hard thing to explain, kinda like explaining what the color blue is.

Annnnd, There you have it folks!

Boring season here..Obviously!

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Annnnd, There you have it folks!

Boring season here..Obviously!

What are you talking about? 15 pages of nothing is just a warm up on some woodworking forums.

Originally Posted by fairwoodworking

What are you talking about? 15 pages of nothing is just a warm up on some woodworking forums.

I did not go to your woodworking pages, sorry! Just a jest at post 141 here! Light-hearted fun.

No worries man, this topic has gone a little flat for me too.

Do you guys really just talk about shaving?

It seems interesting that Gugi's post (# 100) Illustrated quite well what irregular surfaces may look like.
To an extreme. Thankfully, most of our hones have been properly flattened at some point and are not that bad, I hope!
I am up for moving onward from this. It has been fun!

Originally Posted by fairwoodworking

No worries man, this topic has gone a little flat for me too.

Do you guys really just talk about shaving?

Nah. We talk of honing as well. Gets controversial. I usually don't get involved. Like I said....Boring these days!

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Nah. We talk of honing as well. Gets controversial. I usually don't get involved. Like I said....Boring these days!

My God you're the one that starts most of the controversy,,,,,,,

Originally Posted by Hirlau

My God you're the one that starts most of the controversy,,,,,,,

"The Hirlau is ALWAYS Right!"

Originally Posted by fairwoodworking

Actually you didn't.

From the link...
" You just need 3 individual stones that have a 1000 grit surface (3 is the critical number. Not 2, not 4, not 6)."

Hello all, first time poster, long time minutia debater. Saw that one of ya'll posted a link to my blog, and couldn't resist.

Here is the low down from my years with my stones. I had 2 stones, and rubbing them together did not work at keeping them flat. They may have been sidewalk flat, but not a real true, near perfect flat.

3 stones instantly resulted in immeasurably flat stones.

3 stones is the only number that worked for me, and 3 of the same grit of stone is critical.

Not opinion, just results.

For the record, I've recently found the DMT DiaFlat plate works as well.

Welcome to SRP.

I was referring to what Alex said, not what you said in your blog.

However, I'll stick to diamond plates as I said before.