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I did find this one today: New Chinese Water Hone / Waterstone for Straight Razor en venta en eBay.es (finaliza el 22-dic-10 21:35:26 H.Esp)
It seems a bit to good price to be true but the seller has a lot of happy customers.
So what do you guys think?
If you search C12k, you'll find it's been discussed extensively. Personally, I liked the edges it delivered.
I love my C12k. I paid too much for mine from a US supplier as I didn't realise we can get these from retailers here in Australia too.
Mick
I am one of his happy customers.
Got one a few days ago, and it seem to be gr8 value for for less :-)
Ok yes it is a good buy... If you dont get a bad one I dont like mine (too harch finish)
but then i can be a little picky
Thanks all,
its so little money so I will give it a try. In worst case ill just buy another one.
Saludos
seems like a good deal but what would the import duties be coming form poland?
might be cheaper in the long run to buy from north america
Im swedish and i live in spain;) So that no problem for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by wyldr
The problem i have that its very expensive for me to buy from classifieds if it a american seller.
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Originally Posted by Absur
nice, I have a foot of snow and you have the sun...
Try the stones out but try to get a pic of the exact stones your getting. I think some people have had problems with the stones having a line running through it that was more coarse which would damage the blade.
Many of the Chinese hones have those lines in them and they are considered to be a basic characteristic of the hones. I have two such hones with the lines and they have no impact on the honing. I believe that is the experience of most who have used these hones.Quote:
Originally Posted by wyldr
All natural hones will vary in quality and characteristics, but I don't think the lines on the hone serve as an indicator of the serviceability of the Chinese hone.
good to know,Quote:
Originally Posted by Utopian
I stand corrected
And I am willing to stand corrected. If anyone has experience with the lines specifically causing problems, I'd be curious to know about it.Quote:
Originally Posted by wyldr
Never had any line issues here, but I've only tried out 3 of them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Utopian
I do recall reading some posts saying some have coarse inclusions in them, though. Not sure if that was in the lines or just in the hone in general. I also haven't seen (or at least haven't noticed) any of those posts recently, so maybe it was a false alarm or isolated incident.
Janivar, I've been somewhat consumed w/ learning a new asagi, but just before it arrived, I too had very sharp but harsh edges from the c12k.Quote:
Originally Posted by janivar123
My stone had the black tiger-stiped veins on one side but not the other. I use the striped side for normal honing. I do use slurry to speed things up a bit. On the other side, I drew a diamond shaped cross-hatch pattern with one of the short fat crayons of Crox sold through SRD. By having the crox on the stone, you do edge-leading strokes and avoid the frail edge syndroe of the crox strops. It did smooth things out quite a bit.