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When I say my razor is a Dovo Inox Stainless Steel am I being redundant? Are all Dovo Inox's stainless steel while a carbon steel blade would have a different model name besides Inox?

I am thinking of purchasing a Norton Waterstone to go with my Inox, I see on their web site that they have several grits would you recommend a single grit or a double grit? I had my third straight razor shave two nights ago, did not get to do one last night, as my wife took over the bathroom. Which grit size would you recommend 200, 1K, 4K single grit or 220/1K, 1K/4K or 4K/8K double grit? Personally I like the idea of a double grit better. I am leaning towards the 1K/4K double grit.

Are the Norton stones good hones for a Dovo Inox?

Inox = stainless (inoxidable)

4k/8k Norton is a great combination if you are going to use Nortons to hone your razors, inox or otherwise

I really prefer the single grit hones. They cost more but are worth it to me because I don't have to do all that flipping (I know that sounds ridiculous, but it's true) and wiping. Also, if you have the single grit hones you can rub them together to continually refresh them.

The SS blades are harder so tend to take more strokes but the Nortons certainly can handle them.

Like Utopian ( great minds think alike) I prefer the single grits. You don't need to soak the 8k and they are 1" thick. If you have a warped blade you can turn the stone on edge and use it the narrow way. If I wasn't going to do a lot of honing I might just as well go with the 4/8 combo. If I was going the combo route I would probably go for the 220/1k as well for setting bevels on the 1k although with more patience you could get by with the 4k. Stainless is usually not that bad to hone although I have run into a couple that were tougher and I had to resort to the DMTs on those.

What is the method for honing a kitchen knife?

This set will do everything you could ever want to do.... From razors to knives if you wanted to.... Now if you get crazy into it (like Ron, Jimmy, and I) then you can add more stones down the road


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I know aobut the stones what I want to know is if I have the stone already what is the process that I use to hone a kitchen knife?

KITCHEN KNIFE? ARE YOU KIDDING?
THIS IS straight razor place not knife place? Come on

it was just a joke
use 1k and 4k.
should do it. you dont have to go 8k if you want you can go 8 k too but edge will be too fine for your kitchen knife.
lastly unlike razors which lays flat on the hone to sharpen knife you will need to keep blade above the stone approximately 15 degree constantly.
hope this help.
gl

just be sure to take care when sharpening kitchen knives on water stones, I took a decent slice out of my king 1k with one of my utility folders in a moment of inattention. I find that for most kitchen stuff, a courser stone will "feel" sharper to a certain extent, and unless you are making very delicate cuts, 1k is very adequate.

Ah, so the method for sharpening a kitchen knife is smilar to that of a striaght razor. I keep telling my mrs that every home should have a sharpening stone to at least sharpen the kitchen knives and do double duty with the straight razor.

Did my second straight shave last night. Started off by honing it a bit, when I recieved it from the honemister it was so dull that its no wonder that I couldn't use it. Seem to have the honing method pretty good by now as its starting to be quite a bit sharper than it was when the hone mister sent it to me. I am still steaming aobut that one. Picked up a new sample of Shave Den jasmine shave cream, lathered it and went to town. Got a somewhat deecent shave with it, nothing near what one would call adequate but still good enough. I think that I am getting towards where I need to be in terms of shaving with the straight razor but I think that it will be a while before I can truely say that I do this adequately and can upgrade from a double edge.