Thread: Apache natural hone

Hello, just got an apache stone from naturalhones.com. Found out about it from a friend who has one. Did a 1,5,10 and 50 circles and 10 x strokes, strop and shave. NICE shave, HHT was fantastic, escher like and the stone has great feedback, no slurry, piece of cake and easy. As I said its an escher like shave, the stone gives great feedback, its a hair under a hard Jnat finish in sharp but not tuggy at all.
The stone without slurry cut, its not cnat or arkie like in that it cuts fast. I dont think the first hone took me more than 7 minutes. So more HAD. Last one though. LOL No affiliation with this company BTW.

Nice. Where did you get it.

naturalhones.com

I got one too. Recommend by my good friend Nelson, NYC honemeister. I am as far from a honemeister as one can be. Bill has been teaching me for a year now. But, with this stone I got a superlative shave on a hard as hell super steel japanese razor. It was wonderful. An epic moment in my shaving life! Thanks Nelson. Thanks Bill

Along with my good friends and fellow Nyers above.. I also have this stone.. And it's awesome.. Super easy to use water only finish on a natural without slurry.. Yayyyy!! Super shiny bevel and overall great shave.. Sorry Bill no slurries no Tomos no naguras lol..

Originally Posted by Airportcopper

Along with my good friends and fellow Nyers above.. I also have this stone.. And it's awesome.. Super easy to use water only finish on a natural without slurry.. Yayyyy!! Super shiny bevel and overall great shave.. Sorry Bill no slurries no Tomos no naguras lol..

You dont have to use tomos or slurries....but im gonna give it this weekend!

I've been looking for a simple and quick progression where I didn't have to create slurry and get from one stone to another seamlessly. Japanese natural honing is on average a 45 minute to one hour per razor proposition for me, I minimally do six nagura progressions not counting Tomos and was looking for an alternative.

To incorporate this stone into a progression I figure I'd start with a Chosera 1K, followed by a Norton 4/8K. I prefer natural finishers and my hybridish coticule almost got me to where I wanted to be from a edge aggressiveness and smoothness prospective and my CF created too big of a gap refinement wise. I tried the Apache Strata and it worked perfectly in this role. This stone is really hard but provides very nice feedback and polishes very well.

Just updating and repeating what Nelson has already said. Havent missed yet on Sheffields, Solingens, modern dovo and TI and even a gold dollar. Nice feedback and polish, no issues so far at all and there are more than a few of us using these stones.

Next time you guys find a hone you like, can you just keep it to yourselves? I'm dyin over here!!!
I ordered a small one - the price was definitely worth giving it a shot.
I've also got a La Lune coming in this week so I've got some work ahead of me

Originally Posted by RoyalCake

Next time you guys find a hone you like, can you just keep it to yourselves? I'm dyin over here!!!
I ordered a small one - the price was definitely worth giving it a shot.
I've also got a La Lune coming in this week so I've got some work ahead of me

i tell you what brother, we like em all! Let us know how you make out!