I'm wondering how you store and keep your hones. I have them in a cabinet but they are just stacked on top of each other. I would like to have them easier laid out and see. A better visual display for deciding which to choose.
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I'm wondering how you store and keep your hones. I have them in a cabinet but they are just stacked on top of each other. I would like to have them easier laid out and see. A better visual display for deciding which to choose.
Do you have too many stones like this guy ? :)
Don't use my method. I can see 5 right now on my desk. Change that to 8 if I look down and to the left!:D Most are in a couple of bins under the couch. Convenient but not very visible.A few more in my shop downstairs and in the bathroom also. I took the one out of my camper yesterday because we are going to sell it. I could keep going.... I even remember now one in the glove box of my truck.
in my bathroom cabinet , hall closet,bedroom dresser top, hehehehe yeah I'm a bit spread out :-)
Someone ought to go down to the basement under the stone room and check the floor boards for misalignment and sagging.....and various unauthorized sound effects.
Check this thread out (amongst others)http://straightrazorpalace.com/hones...ml#post1393511
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This was my solution and it's cheaply/easily made with supplies from Wally World.
Mine are in a downstairs (basement) bathroom that nobody else uses, save one single jnat barber hone that's in my upstairs bathroom with a tomonagura. The ones downstairs get no dust or grime on them because nobody goes in the BR. All of the hones that live in my woodshop, which includes anything that commonly gets used in woodworking, stays in a machinist bench so that dust and foreign particles stay off the surfaces. If the stones reside on top of the bench because they get used a lot, I keep them in a box for the same reason (and in the case where I'm using an oil hone, so that the water hones stay out of the line of any spritz or foreign drops of fluid).
Clear plastic totes so I can see them and they can see me. Keeps the dust off them not that they sit around enough to get any on them
I store my naniwas in garage. After i used them I put them on a table in the garden one day ( for dry well) and then I put in the original package in garage
I have a honing station downstairs (just a couple of tables really). All my hones just sit on that. Most are out of their boxes and the Norton 4/8 and Sigmas live in a bucket of water. Stones I don't use much (read:at all) are in a storage container in the storeroom. Stones I don't use at all but like to look at (e.g. my TOS/WOA combo, Coti/BBW combo, couple of midrange Jnats etc) sit out on the table too.
James.
Not advisable to store some man made's where the damp one may freeze. Been lucky so far. Do not leave a Naniwa in water too long, new ones have a different binder and will crack if soaked long and dried and will have a white exudate if soaked in hot water for some reason. I found out the hard way! then i re-read the NEW directions on the seller's site.
~Richard
Nice colection on the first pic . I have only few
Carbocorundum
180 - 400 grit
800 grit
1000 grit
Makita 1200
4 Turkish hones 2000 - 6000 grit , the last one amazing and fast finiqhing stone fine as the thurigian but fast and gives ferousious sharp edges .
2 coticules
1 Esher
1 Bulgarian finisher 12 000 veri fine and soft
those are for razors ,and few more for knives = 12 razor hones. I keep them in old wooden box , with theirs rubber bases .
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.
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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
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.
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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
Attachment 180060. 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.
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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
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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....Quote:
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
Great selection!
~Richard
I should take s family photo later
Mine just http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b3...stuffbench.jpgused to hang on the wall.
Wow man , and i was thinking that i am a maniac. :gaah: Look at those laboratories , microscopes , advanced tecnique , specal light and artificial stones .
I was thinking that i am at good level . With 15 natural hones and few strops and pastes , for me is enought that the razor pops hairs barely touching them. And i was thinking that i know something about razors and honing . Look at those guys .
In my short Honing Journey (4 yrs) I learned how to hone,I honed for myself and some friends and myself all were happy.
Than I got that high power scope and things went to hell in a handbasket real quik.
I started to see to many things that I tried to correct and all went downhill,I did great with a small handloop before.
Do not hone anymore,sold all my toys,with the money I made off the toys,I can send my blades out for 20 yrs to have a real pro do them:)
Hello friends,
I have a problem with my 500 stones. When putting every one in a box or wrapping them in bubblewrap I do not have space enough to store them. So I store them side by side on the shelf - see photograph. This year we have undertaken an other study trip. We visited 15 countries and have collected 75 new stones. The new stones are covered in Section 5 of the "Grinding and honey" series we hope to finish by Spring 2015.
Henk.
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Part five? You have my attention. Standing by.
Henk can you show them also how and where you store those which did not make it to your "Shelf collection"
I store the following hones dry in my closet:
* DMT 325
* Naniwa 12K
* Woodstock 1K/6K
The following stones get used often, so I store them in a water/bleach mix (1/4 tsp bleach : 1 cup water) in plastic containers, under my bathroom sink. I've been using the same water mix for a year now with no problems.
* King 220/1000
* Norton 4K/8K