Thread: Tools of honing

Originally Posted by eddy79

I used a taidea 3/8 to start with and finished on a barbers hone. May take a bit more lapping to keep it flat though. Good luck

Oh good, then I'm glad it wasn't a bad purchase.

But while im waiting I had good progress. Fallowed very closely on Lynns instrucions on honing and had pretty nice results. Dont know exactly how a professionally honed razor feels like but my GD now shaves almost as good as with shavette. No cuts and burns on my last shave.

My progression was
(40circles+15 stokes)x2 on 1k,
40circles+15 stokes one time with pressure and on time without pressure on 3k
then about 15 laps on light blue compound
about 20 strokes on 12k welsh stone with slurry,
20 strokes on same 12k with just the water,
30 laps on chromium oxide pasted cardboard,
20 laps on newspaper
50 laps on leather

well with my cheap ass setup I finally did accomplish something. Im guessing with the 8k stone I would get even better results.
The main mistakes I think I made was : To much honing on stones, I spent about 20+ minutes on each stone which seems to be too much.
And also I did super light pressure after the 3k stone.
Well I think that summed up and finally lead me to some-what success. Now Ill just find someone with professionally honed strait and compare. But comparing to shavette it was quite nice.