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

Ha! Richard and Jimmy are not the problem. There's a guy at B&B who recently posted a pic of a table-full of cotis and he mentioned there was over $5,000 worth sitting there! And no, not a dealer either!

That was the duck trip! I saw that. And TWO 8x 2 hybrids? Thats too many for one table. They gotta let us draw the water from the well.

9 ain't a lot of coticules, for a normal person ....... ...... if they ever go back up in $ to what they were when I got 'em, I'll get down to 2 or 3. Until then they stay in the cabinet.

Now taking orders.

Originally Posted by rlmnshvstr8

Now don't leave geezer out of this. He's only 1 behind jimmy. Because of those two there is a shortage in supply and an increase in demand.

Jimmy did not list about half of his hones. Just what was in plain view!!
~Richard

Originally Posted by Geezer

After reading the above posts, I am of the understanding that I do not have HAD.
A quick tally!
Chosera 1k
King 400
Kiing 800
other Kings to 6K
Norton 4-8
Couple Shaptons
8 Coticules plus slurry stones
About 15+ Thuringians and four labeled Escher blue through Y/g.
About 11 Strop Hones of varying quality.
About 6 slates like but not all CHUG's
2 J-nat ( cheapies)
20 some barber hones
6 Arkies of small to useful size
10 other naturals
A few folding cased razor boxes/hones with strops and hones built in.
Some Diamond hones/lapping plates

Never can tell but what a box may surface and add to the assortment.
Keep the replies coming..I am enjoying the thread!
~Richard

Yes Richard you have HAD too ;-)

Originally Posted by Geezer

Jimmy did not list about half of his hones. Just what was in plain view!!
~Richard

Actually that is the whole shootin' match nowadays. Sold or traded more than I have listed. I think I had 60 at one time, but that was years ago. I'm more conservative nowadays .....

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

Actually that is the whole shootin' match nowadays. Sold or traded more than I have listed. I think I had 60 at one time, but that was years ago. I'm more conservative nowadays .....

Not more conservative Jim,just smarter

I actually had to check again.

I have four full sized coticules but one (old mineage) has inclusions rendering it useless apart from the blue backing (used on kitchen cutlery). The others are 6x10cm, 4x18cm and 5x20cm. Then two smaller coticules, slurry stone sized: one triangular (didn't measure, not going to) and one 1.5x9cm used as a full-fledged hone.

Then one small Thüringer, one Cretan for bevel setting and one tiny cheapo diamond hone for serious issues.

So all in all, seven. I use maybe three on a 'regular' basis. 'Regular' meaning the few times a month (maybe) that I hone a razor.

Allright, here goes!

- 3 cheap Chinese diamond hones for the really bad jobs (mainly on other stones)
- DMTs in 4 grits for serious to regular bevel setting work
- a smallish Cretan I never use
- an Aloxite barber hone I never use
- about 8-10 coticules in all sizes, vintage/newly bought/cut myself
- some Japanese stone on loan from a friend

I'm actually planning to get rid of all those I don't use, I don't have issues with HAD at all in fact.