Quote Originally Posted by JimmyHAD View Post
FWIW, I bet (I may be wrong) that the Pike Swaty was made by Swaty and imported with the Pike name added. Just a suspicion as I've never had one to compare to the Austrian marked hone.

Here is a set of instructions that Swaty sent out with their hones. The barber I knew many years ago would refresh an edge on his Swaty dry. I've been fooling with a few different barber hones here lately and I have been using them dry with few strokes and good results.

When I first started honing on a Norton starter set I would use my Swaty with water following the 4/8 and I got good results with that as well. Using it as if it was a 12k. Not that it is but that is what some said on the forum at that time.
Thanks so much for that PDF!!! That really simplified it for me. Im looking forward to testing this out. Thanks again everyone, very very helpful