Thread: Messing With A Mystery

There isn't any questions here just me ranting about my mystery hone. Everytime I think I am getting closer to figuring this thing out it goes in a completely different direction. The stone is quite soft, but fine. At times it seems to work fast and others slow. Anyway I honed up two razors up to my Norton 8k and decided to use the mystery stone and see what it does. I only use this stone with water or lather, but never slurry. Seems like lather or soap really slows it down, but it varies alot from razor to razor. It doesn't seem to respond well to slurry. Well one razor after 10 laps it improved the Norton 8k edge significantly. The other razor took about 30 laps to achieve the same thing, but the edge on both razors started to look like the first photo and it works up to looking like the second photo the more laps you do. Photos were borrowed from the library. The edge really seems to degrade fast the more you do. This is all with no pressure laps. I know different razors have different hardness so will react differently to the stone. The stone seems to work well to touch up a razor, but finishing on it can be a PITA. Seems like it can take a completely shave ready 8k edge and improve it significantly and other times just degrade the edge so fast. I have been only doing 5-10 laps at a time and 10 laps is really pushing the boundary at one time.