Thread: My current collection of hones.

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

Now the question is, do you know how to use them? Take this as a friendly question and not an insult.

Yes I do, Ive been using straights for nearly 5 years and been honing for about 1 year,
Nice question lol.

I run into to many people that have large collections of items such as tools, cameras, guitars and such but couldn't use them properly. I have a large collection of SR's but only a few stones as I have mentioned in previous posts and I do quite well with those. I can understand having a large number of different screw drivers because not all screws are created equally, maybe if I tried a few of the newer synthetic stones I might change my tune but I have never found a knife or razor that I could not put an edge to. Now having said that, I do have a Norton 4/8K and 12K on the way to try out.

I do pick up hones when I can hence the amount I have (more than I need) but as most are natural stones I know they can vary a bit, still finding out what I like best,
I do get on well with the Welsh Tri hone set nice stones

I have to be careful because that could just well be the next collection I start

Originally Posted by alpla444

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

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)

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