Thread: One Stone Honing.. from Lynn and Glen

Let me sorta explain how this thread started, Lynn and I were doing some general BS'n one day on the phone about 1 month ago..

He says "Dude yer not going to believe what I have been working on" Well it turns out that for that past few months he and I were doing pretty much the exact same things...

We had both been working various Stones and Hones using a variation of Lynn's "20 Circles to Sharp" routine that works so well on setting the bevel...
Turns out that yes you can use just about any hone that you want to shave off of to get a close comfortable shave, all it has to do is be able to create or hold a slurry...
There is no magical stone, they pretty much all work, but you have to do your part.. There is also no complicated routine to follow, you just do circles then finishing strokes...
I have done this on a Norton 8k, a Naniwa 8k & 10k a Shapton 8k a Thuringen, an Escher, a Coticule, the Chinese PHIG, even a Nakayama Midori...

Here is where this is different from a normal progression routine at least IMHO, I have found that this hits the first time though, about 70% of the time, some are higher like the Nakayama, some lower..
This will be great for those of you that don't own a ton of razors, and that have the time to mess with the ones that need re-touching after a test shave... You really need a bevel setter, for those razors that need heavier lifting, I used a King 1k during all my testing since they are so cheap to buy, and straight forward to use...

I will let Lynn take this from here, as he did way more testing on this then I did...

I am going to leave this thread closed until Lynn gets time to post his info then we will re-open it for questions and comments...


I just loaded a couple of vids on YouTube on this ...


Part 1

YouTube - gssixgun "One Stone Hone" Part 1