places to buy a hone

**onimaru55** · 10-11-2010, 10:15 AM

I gave a CD a swipe with both sides of the stone & the white side left coarser scratches.
On steel they both leave such a mirror polish its hard to tell but if you scratch plastic with it its more obvious.
I've honed a whole bunch of razors with it over the last 12 months & always used the white side as 3k. I've retired it now as I found it too soft for the amount of work I do but that was how I used it.

**MickR** · 10-12-2010, 10:39 AM

Originally Posted by onimaru55

I gave a CD a swipe with both sides of the stone & the white side left coarser scratches.
On steel they both leave such a mirror polish its hard to tell but if you scratch plastic with it its more obvious.
I've honed a whole bunch of razors with it over the last 12 months & always used the white side as 3k. I've retired it now as I found it too soft for the amount of work I do but that was how I used it.

I'll have to remember that. I'll be double checking any hones I buy in future.
Lucky you went by what the box read and not the stone...That and experience probably played a hand no doubt.

It's almost too soft for my small amount of use too, I think. It'll do me for a while though. Thanks for that mate.

Mick

**onimaru55** · 10-12-2010, 11:13 PM

No problemo amigo. The upside on being so soft is that they cut fast & they're easy to lap but they're really better suited to knife sharpening IMHO

**MickR** · 10-13-2010, 09:52 PM

Yesterday I did a little more lapping on my Kasumi hone on some finer grit W&D and then gave my Dovo I.MoP another touch up, since it seems I may have been using the 3k side like an 8k.
I can now say with complete certainty that you CAN shave off a 3k, but an 8k finished off with a c12k is far smoother. Thanks for pointing out that little fault of the Kasumi to mark the stone wrong, but the box correctly Oz. It makes a world of difference. I won't go into my honing experiences that should have told me this was the case. Hindsight is 100% and I should have seen it at the time. As testing on the "8000" was always a tad off compared to the "3000" and my patience only went so far before I decided it was as good as I could get it.

Mick

**onimaru55** · 10-14-2010, 02:32 AM

I bet a lot of Kasumi owners are doing the reverse pyramid

**MickR** · 10-14-2010, 08:24 AM

I know I was! Not any longer now though...Reminds me I might put a review up on that Everten site to say just that.

Mick

**onimaru55** · 10-15-2010, 01:45 AM

Yeah they'll love that

**hendersr** · 10-15-2010, 02:58 AM

Damn. I saw the sticker but the stamps on the stones were opposite so i thought no one is that stupid that they are going to stamp a stone wrong. I might change that to who would be stupid enough to see both and assume soemthing was correct. That would be me.

**onimaru55** · 10-15-2010, 03:07 AM

Guess they thought it was cheaper to put stickers on the box than re-stamp the hone.
BTW Nice honest review there Mick

**baldy** · 10-15-2010, 03:27 AM

That CD trick is an awesome idea. I'll have to remember that.
Thanks Oz

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