Thread: Beginners Tips: June 2013

Originally Posted by manutabora

Hi Glen,
Another newcomer here, and I'm also very appreciative of your post. On my limited budget, keeping it simple is a must! That said, I've been wondering about what honing stone I should get, considering I'm not going to do any heavy duty honing, just to refresh the blade from time to time. Any recommendations?

This is the latest version of the article that I have saved, which Mike mentioned above, it raises the thoughts about what to buy before you buy

http://straightrazorpalace.com/hones...ml#post1148199

I was asked this exact question at the Denver meet this past Sunday, there was a time that my automatic answer was "Find a good quality Barber's Hone at a good price and never look back" but now a days those are getting to be stupid expensive and hard to find.. My goto response is more toward the Naniwa SS 12k now, that is a very versatile hone at a very fair price...