Thread: Gokumyo 20k One Stone Hone Experiment

Great to see some interest in this idea. It's an honour for me to be able to give ideas back to SRP, after having learned so much here over the years.

I only have my phone internet connection at the moment, so I can't really watch Ron's demonstration in entirety, but will be able to at work this week.

As mentioned, I used the 3k, and had a bevel in about 5 or so minutes, followed by about 10 mins to get to the end. This may have been because I don't tread lightly in the early stages of honing, and often use quite a bit of pressure. I figured, on this hone, once a good bevel had been set you can't go wrong - it's a finisher after all.

Regarding wedges. While I defer to Utopian's greater experience and knowledge, I'm not quite ready to say that this method will not work for wedges. I think it's pretty easy to put a good edge on a hollow ground, but I'm not ashamed to say it took me a very long time before I was really comfortable doing wedges. About 85% of my collection is wedges of one type or another spanning the period ~1770-1900 and I use them as daily shavers. None of these razors lay flush on the hone, all being warped to some extent - which is why I mention this. As long as you tape, and feel every part of the edge meeting the stone there should be no problem with them.

If anyone is interested, I would be happy to do a few different edges and provide some basic numbers and timings as a rough guide.