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

A very good collection! Thanks for sharing it. I too like barber's hones and I don't think I can be called a "collector" as all the ones I have are Swatys with "different number of lines".

Nice collection! How do you like your Carborundum 201? I have one and I prefer using the ALO side of it.

I love barbers hones. Something about them.

As for the black one that's bugging you - I have one that looks very similar. It is very hard and is extremely fine - very "slow." Would you say yours is as well?

Mine came in a perfectly fitted little non-descript red box, so that didn't help matters much. I would love to know more about mine as well.

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.

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.

I havent tried yet. The norton Pike gives a real nice edge.