Thread: My little Barber's hone collection (so far)

Originally Posted by Tchuko

Yeah the black one seems slow. Time to pull the microscope and check the scratch pattern as Bombay suggested. Maybe use a 8k norton and a 12k naniwa as benchmark.

I'll try to take a photo of mine here soon and we can compare lol. Maybe I'll even give my blade a run on it here tomorrow.

Ok, I tried to remove scratch from a knife( rapale style) to compare the black stone and the pike hone.
Here are my not so scientific results :

PIKE

Before:


After 50 passes


After 100 passes



LITTLE BLACK STONE

Before:



After 50 passes


After 100 passes


(seems to havec a lot of watermark on it.

Bear in mind that I tried to keep the angle but its not like a razor with a spine.
Tried to keep the same angle for the pics but it was not so easy

I am somewhat surprised by the litte black stone. Seems to work faster than I had tought.