Thread: Broken Naniwa 12k

Got this rock in a bundle.
It is broken in 2 parts.



What are the options here?
Try to glue it with epoxy?
Maybe somehow remove it from the stand and use the two parts as "barber hones"?

Thanks

As 2 hones as u said.

Have you contacted the seller?? Perhaps you can get it replaced!

Well, I was aware of the problème when I bought this stone in a sweet bundle with a norton 4k 8k a lapping plate a barber hone some razors and a strop.
I have anothe Naniwa 12k so maybe I will make touch up hone for sale.
Just have to figure out how to remove the rock from the plate.

Maybe you can leave it on the plate and cut the plastic bottom to match the size of both pieces. That would limit the risk of breaking it even further.

Take a look at Alex Jacques videos on you tube. He cuts his finishing stones in half, length wise to use as his finishing stones. My brother took this aproch after cracking his Naniwa 12k and he has really liked how it works and has now cut all his stones besides his bevel setting norton. Not to sure if this helps but who knows.

I considered cutting my hones as well. But as I was told you can achieve the samw thing by keeping the blade on one side of the hone. I have choseras and they are not combos so you can use them in their side as I do as necesary.

You can remove the base. Put it facedown on the workbench and cut off the plastic bits that stick up with a hacksaw. Then use a handheld belt sander with a coarse belt to carefully grind the rest of the plastic away.

Let some thin CA wick into the crack, that should stabilize the hone, then just lap lightly with a few figure 8's before use and it should be fine...
If it were a different hone then a Naniwa SS I would say don't even bother with the CA but the SS tend to swell when you add water...


ps: There is a thread on here from way back about popping them loose and cutting them lengthwise... Many of us fell for the thoughts back then of how it was easier to hone problem blades on thinner hones..
Honest, it isn't, the stroke you do on a 1.5 inch hone is the exact same as you do on a 3 inch hone to correct for problem razors, they both use the exact same Honing Gymnastics..

Just take your 3 inch hone and draw a pencil line down the middle and figure out the stroke needed to keep the edge on one side of the line, same same, once you realize that then you will quickly realize that you no longer need the line or a thinner hone to get the whole edge..

Originally Posted by gssixgun

Just take your 3 inch hone and draw a pencil line down the middle and figure out the stroke needed to keep the edge on one side of the line, same same, once you realize that then you will quickly realize that you no longer need the line or a thinner hone to get the whole edge..

Wait... you'll pay for the whole hone but you'll only use the edge?? Sounds like the seats at the dragracing track where I grew up. BE THERE Be There be there... SUNDAY Sunday sunday...