Thread: How do you store your hones?

Most of my synthetics I keep in a plastic tub; all in one place, hard to lose.
I made this box for the Escher, based it upon the look of some of the older boxes I've seen.

I don't have a lot of hones but I do have a pretty complete set.
King 1k
King 5k
Naniwa 3000/8000 combo
Naniwa 12k
3 line swaty
Phig/C12k
Zulu grey
And a dmt 325 to keep them flat

They all fit in my storage box

Originally Posted by nodakjohns

I don't have a lot of hones but I do have a pretty complete set.
King 1k
King 5k
Naniwa 3000/8000 combo
Naniwa 12k
3 line swaty
Phig/C12k
Zulu grey
And a dmt 325 to keep them flat

They all fit in my storage box

Very nice.

I have them on a shelf over my workbench. Easy access. They do get a little dusty with all the horn dust I generate from scale making.

Together with lapping plate and slurry stone, I keep my 5 stones stacked on a serving tray that I keep in a cabinet in the study and take out to the kitchen to do my "dirty work" (hence the kitchen, plenty of water and easier to clean up afterwards).

As they are synthetic (Naniwa and Suehiro Gokumyo) stones they don't need to be soaked in water, but the plastic tray comes handy for the lapping plate that needs some time to dry afterwards and produces a wet foot-print after use.


B.

Great thread, thank you!
These are my most used hones in shoe boxes. I have the old med cart on casters to get them easily out of sight to the right behind the cabinets. I teach honing occasionally and have those common hones in it as well as my favorite rotation at the moment. I like to hone in the very bright kitchen of my tiny house. The scope has a home made camera adapter so I can do a photo at 100x or some such silly number
. I use the little cheap 60x lighted microscopes after the first lesson on what an edge looks like but the heavy one make me look like an expert???
Other less used hones are in the cabinet on a shelf.
The ideal for me is to have a guy stop bye and enjoy an espresso latte while we get acquainted and then on to business at the kitchen directly behind the camera about 6 feet. For shave training the door to the shave den is due left. I keep a Coticule and an Escher there plus strops to really refine a good edge.

For travel I use sheets of cheap, durable, ¼" foam plastic sill sealer between hones and haul them in plastic totes.

Everyone has differing spaces and ideas of what is a comfortable honing area and how best to have needed supplies at hand. The suggestions in the posts above can help a lot
~Richard

This is mine. Most wrapped in bubble wrap or a towel.

This is not where my barber homes are kept. That's a diffrrent box

This is mine. Most wrapped in bubble wrap or a towel.
This is not where my barber homes are kept. That's a diffrrent box

Nice set up! A great selection for any steels and some safety. The only thing I would change is the bubble wrap. It only protects once and once the bubble pops, its a sheet of thin sandwich bag. I know, they come that way....
Great selection!
~Richard

I should take s family photo later

Mine just used to hang on the wall.