Thread: The weeping Hone Contest!

Originally Posted by Lumberjohn

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This made me cry

Did your wife find your reciepts?

Originally Posted by JoeLowett

Did your wife find your reciepts?

Hahaha no, she'd suggested I'd buy from the bay! That's the point! Something went terribly wrong in transit.. So no honing for me :'(...... Yet.... I hope.....

New to honing and str8 shaving last summer.
Missed the Zulu sale at the end of the year sadly so took on a chance on a phig from a polish eBay seller.
Came unlapped as expected so I set to lapping it, and lapping it, and lapping it.
When I woke up the next day, I lapped it,, etc.......
Put 6 hrs in from a lapping block, up to a 1k, and finally on my norton 4k, but I can't seem to get past this fissure.

So, I will lap some more,,but am not optimistic i will get this flaw dressed out.
My first finishing stone has me weeping..it's a pretty rock, just flawed..sort of like Newfoundland.. Lol,,
Cheers..

I took my 1k into work one day to sharpen a chisel. Left it by our bench grinder and one of the other guys decided to use it, WITH OIL!!!!!! And not just a little, a lot. I cried like a kid who lost his blanky.

A couple of months ago I won this item: Antique German Escher Thuringian Razor Hone Sharpening Stone Belgian Coticule | eBay

In case ebay decides to delete the listing here's a pic:



As it came in from the USA 19% Value Added Tax would be charged on both the value of the item and shipping costs. Payable on receipt of the item. VAT is one of the blessings of the EU. Unlike the situation in the Netherlands where you pay the VAT to the postman delivering the parcel things are quite different in Germany where I live at the moment. Within 2 weeks of paying for the item I received a letter from the customs office that a parcel was waiting there for me and that I had to collect it myself and bring my passport with me within 6 weeks or it would be returned to sender. There was no way I could get the Deutsche Post to deliver it to my home so I took off to Lingen, an hour by car both ways from Laar. After waiting for a quarter of an hour at the door I was led into a room with a couple of sets of shelves filled with parcels, one of which was mine. In the room were 2 customs officers and people opening up parcels. I had to open the parcel in front of 2 customs officers who obviously wanted to be sure the parcel wasn't filled with controlled substaces. Both had never seen a razor hone before. Needless to say it took me a while before they understood the purpose of such a thing. After patiently answering all their questions I still could not pay for the VAT and leave. No, one of the 2 officers who sat behind a computer had to enter it into a customs file. This took him a quarter of hour. Not surprisingly a razor hone wasn't an item predefined in his files. Unfortunately the man wanted to do everything by the book and started to look really hard in his files for ways to categorize a razor hone. I suggested categories like antiques, antique tools, sharpening stones etc to no avail. After about a quarter of an hour he was mentally exhausted and put it somewhere. Then I was led to the cashier who wouldn't accept a credit card. The amount had to be paid cash: banknotes and coins. Only then could I leave the custums office, having suffered my share of petty bureaucracy for the day. Dutch bureacracy is bad but its German counterpart is worse.


But now I am the proud owner of a 7"x2 1/2" Hohenzollern razor hone. Immediately after coming home I lapped it with sandpaper and gave it a go. An awesome hone that I will cherish for as long as I am a straight razor shaver.

I thought you were going to say after all that you dropped it and broke it into 10 pieces.

Off topic but I have visited the castle pictured on the label of your hone. If only I would have picked of a rock when I was there...

I lapped a Translucent Black Arkansas.

It was a vintage model, Probably 5mm of dip in the middle..... It took a week, The bathroom was grey for a month, And the best bit... It still has a 1/2 mm dip on one of the edges.... Evil Evil Evil things to sort out.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

I thought you were going to say after all that you dropped it and broke it into 10 pieces.

That would have been a real tearjerker.

Oh no, I'm sorry man, that's awful