Thread: My current collection of hones.

I know that feeling. You start honing and then you start collecting hones and if you are unlucky like me you collect even more hones and for honing you have no more time.

If you could only keep 2 and you had to drop the rest into the ocean which 2 would you keep?

all of them

Originally Posted by JOB15

If you could only keep 2 and you had to drop the rest into the ocean which 2 would you keep?

Hmmm not so easy to answer, so I will give you answers.
As I have a few razors that are NOT honed up yet it would have to be 1) The King 1/6 combi and the Norton 8K.
If it all my razors where honed up and only maintenance/touch-up required then 2) prob both Charnley forest hones as I could always sell one and fund another purchase lol, joking aside one CF and the dalmore blue, not much use for touch-up but it looks great and not so easy to come by these days.

Originally Posted by alpla444

Just 1 pic of my hone collection. big enough for me, (small pile of rocks to sum lol)Attachment 170509

A nice collection my friend - remember, it is only the beginning, so it is just as well that you have plenty of room on that ledge!

It is good to know that you are familiar with and use all of them. Like Guitstik said, a large number of people are just collectors - fair play to them, but they are missing another dimension if they are not users as well. I have a large collection of cameras and lenses along with darkroom gear like large format (5" x 7") cold cathode enlargers and colour control heads, and I know how to use every bit of kit to take pics, develop them, mix my own developers, make my own papers, etc, etc. Like I say, it adds another wonderful dimension.

Some of my hones:



There are maybe 4x - 5x more than this in various boxes and piles, and yes Guitstik - I know how to use them all and regularly use them!

Regards,
Neil

Great Collection Neil some very nice stones....!!

As already mentioned only collecting the stones shouldnt be the goal, for me it is not...

And yes it takes a certain time, on some stones a quite long time to learn how to properly use them...

These are my stones and up to date now i stopped collecting further more stones, so the next period of time (how long this will take i do not know) i will try to work and learn more with the stones i own...to be true i would guess i learned about 20-30% of the stones i own now...and for shure its not only learning the stone its also improving the own technique of honing further more....so there is much more work to do ;-)

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the botle neck for learning new hones to me seems the slow way my beard grows I have only 7 hones but I'm stil mainly using my first piece of cotcule

Originally Posted by alpla444

Just 1 pic of my hone collection. big enough for me, (small pile of rocks to sum lol)Attachment 170509

I'm very new to the game, does the average user needs all these stones?

NO! in no way does anyone 'need' al those beautifull stones. if you have a shaving razor 1 single finishing hone is enough to maintain it

if you want to start buying straight razors at a fleamarket or from ebay or whatnot it could be an idea to buy a simple set of 1K, 4K, 8K of the norton stones or a set of two hones from naniwa, 1K and a 3|8 K combo hone.

and if you want to improve on those edges you could get something in their collection

Originally Posted by Sergeant

I'm very new to the game, does the average user needs all these stones?

Definately no, as already mentioned one can be used...also Barber Hones for touch ups can be a choice...