Hi

The other day I picked up a hone for twenty pounds on ebay its an old vintage Carbonundum 101A barbours hone as I have been in the market for a hone for keeping my Dovo Solingen All Steel stainless steel straight nice and sharp.

Anyway I did a bit of reading up on here and did some google searching and have found out that the hone shouldnt need lapping and is a fast cutter so only requires a few strokes with some lather on the hone. Anyway yesterday I used my cheap Wilkinson Sword hog hair shaving brush and cheap Wilkinson Sword shaving soap bowl (I use a pure badger brush with proraso now for shaving which a great improvement) to give the hone a clean and then let it dry.

Tonight I lathered up the hone and gave the razor a few strokes about 7 each side on the hone pushing the hone forwards in an x pattern before cleaning the razor drying it and giving it a strop. The razor is cutting arm hairs better now but I will wait until tomorrow morning for the shave test when I have a bit more stubble but it should be interesting as I thought the blade was starting to get a bit duller and was pulling a bit more especially ATG on my jaw line.

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