Thread: Suffer from HAD? - How many do you have?

Aren't hones used for cylinders?

See post 145.

Originally Posted by Utopian

I think this thread used to have something to do with hones.

Very true Utopian!

Originally Posted by 32t

Aren't hones used for cylinders?

See post 145.

Yep, very correct! I have a Sunnen hone that goes on the end of a drill!

Sunnen makes the best cylinder hones there are. Try to pick up the Sunnen "drill press" stand to go with them.

O.K. back to HAD. It bit again, just ordered this Nakayama kiita from Takeshi-San (his image). Very smooth, very fine, and fast. The fast peaked my interest too, that means removing the last hone marks quickly. I have one other softer but very fine hone from him, a Hatanaka Hatahoshi branded stone that's arguably my best bench stone. Velvety feel yet very, very fine.

Cheers, Steve

That sounds exactly like this stone I posted at BNB. Very very smooth, soft velvety feel when honing but puts on almost as fine an edge as my Asagi.

Originally Posted by eKretz

That sounds exactly like this stone I posted at BNB. Very very smooth, soft velvety feel when honing but puts on almost as fine an edge as my Asagi.

Gotta love stones like that. The other 9.2 stones from him are actually finer than any asagi I have except one, a 9.4 from him that's kind of a kiita/asagi mix.

The best ones produce a very sharp edge that actually feels like nothing, or dull, but produces a close, smooth shave that lasts a long time.

Cheers, Steve

My collection so far. Chosera 1K, Norton 1000/220, Norton 4000/8000, DMTs coarse and fine, Some old synthetic stone.
Second line : Purple welsh slate ( sold as LM on ebay), Dark welsh slate ( sold as DT on ebay), Chinese 12 K, Sucháček Moravian slate, Small Coticule, tiny broken Arkansas, Charnley forest.

I have a Charnley Forest I haven't tried yet but can't wait to................

Try it, it is a beautiful stone

Originally Posted by Rotavator

Try it, it is a beautiful stone

I heard they work well on Sheffield steel.