Thread: Hone ID

Smith’s honing solution, (water soluble) works well and washes off easily, as does mineral oil with a degreaser (simple green) or Dawn dish soap. Sometimes a short soak is needed for oil.

Originally Posted by Oustoura

i always use water on my hones, tried once with oil but it was awfull to clean after finished to hone. water/glycerine; sounds good but need to have glycerine.

by the way, do you have any suggestion for a finishing hone ? i've already a DT and purple lynn, i'm satisfated but as i look for a la lune and still not found one, i seek an other hone for a step after purple.

There are really many around, the ones i really like actually would be (with no specific ranking):

- Vermio Genuine Greek Razor Hone
- Charnley Forest (some actual good offers on auction sites)
- Apache Strata USA
- Colorado Slate (Sedimentry Stone) from Gabriel
- A Jnat set with Naguras and f.ex. a Ozuku, Nakayama Kiita, Shouboudani or Wakasa
- La Lune or Special Stone

all stones where i like the finish i get from those...

Originally Posted by doorsch

There are really many around, the ones i really like actually would be (with no specific ranking):

- Vermio Genuine Greek Razor Hone
- Charnley Forest (some actual good offers on auction sites)
- Apache Strata USA
- Colorado Slate (Sedimentry Stone) from Gabriel
- A Jnat set with Naguras and f.ex. a Ozuku, Nakayama Kiita, Shouboudani or Wakasa
- La Lune or Special Stone

all stones where i like the finish i get from those...

Thanks for these. Actually the most attractive prices are for charnley forest at this time. Bit I'll wait some more to see if there will be some better offers. So for a while I'll go on with purple Lynn finishing and strop.

The Vermio is a decent price as well.

http://www.erhaso.com/epages/Shop470...iefer195x70x20[1]

CF is always a little gamble, I've been in the quarry and had my hands on uncut stone. And there is a lot of variation of rock in a small area. Some is superfine others are slightly more coarse typical of all natural stone. If you can make sure the auction for CF has great pictures so you can gauge the surface. CF is also very common on Ebay.co.uk most of the time you will see 3-4 listed guaranteed rocks for a big price, then 3-4 stones that you can make an educated guess about.

UK stone terminology is strange. Unless you know what a hone is the common term would be "sharpening stone", "whetstone", "wet stone", or "oil stone". A private lister may not know to use the term hone as it is not a commonly used word in every day language. So search using many different descriptions. Also unless you know it's a CF a lister will probably list it as vintage, old, rare, or antique without specifying a stone type. If you want the bargains learn what they look like and take a cheap gamble 8inch stones are not uncommon, nor are stones with rough sides and uncut bottoms.

Originally Posted by Iceni

The Vermio is a decent price as well.

http://www.erhaso.com/epages/Shop470...iefer195x70x20[1]

CF is always a little gamble, I've been in the quarry and had my hands on uncut stone. And there is a lot of variation of rock in a small area. Some is superfine others are slightly more coarse typical of all natural stone. If you can make sure the auction for CF has great pictures so you can gauge the surface. CF is also very common on Ebay.co.uk most of the time you will see 3-4 listed guaranteed rocks for a big price, then 3-4 stones that you can make an educated guess about.

UK stone terminology is strange. Unless you know what a hone is the common term would be "sharpening stone", "whetstone", "wet stone", or "oil stone". A private lister may not know to use the term hone as it is not a commonly used word in every day language. So search using many different descriptions. Also unless you know it's a CF a lister will probably list it as vintage, old, rare, or antique without specifying a stone type. If you want the bargains learn what they look like and take a cheap gamble 8inch stones are not uncommon, nor are stones with rough sides and uncut bottoms.

The link you wrote doesn't work for me I receive this message "The page requested is not available
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Try this one.

http://www.erhaso.com/epages/Shop47043.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/Shop47043/Products/VermioSchiefer195x70x20[1]

The site isn't the best

It can be found on this page at the bottom as well.

Abziehsteine - Banksteine - ERHASO WEBSHOP

failing that

ERHASO WEBSHOP - BÜRSTEN, ENTGRATEN, SCHLEIFEN, STRUKTURIEREN, MATTIEREN+SATINIEREN, POLIEREN, SCHÄRFEN+ABZIEHEN, ADAPTIEREN, ABDICHTEN

Abziehsteine-Banksteine on the left and it should be at the bottom of the page for €39.90 before tax and shipping.

Tje higher grit I saw is 8000 which I have one for this one. I look for above the 12000. The site is in German so I will take a better look tomorrow

Originally Posted by doorsch

There are really many around, the ones i really like actually would be (with no specific ranking):

- Vermio Genuine Greek Razor Hone
- Charnley Forest (some actual good offers on auction sites)
- Apache Strata USA
- Colorado Slate (Sedimentry Stone) from Gabriel
- A Jnat set with Naguras and f.ex. a Ozuku, Nakayama Kiita, Shouboudani or Wakasa
- La Lune or Special Stone

all stones where i like the finish i get from those...

What the... Sebastian asked about finishers and doesn't mention Thuringian stones?! Lol, the world has turned upside down!

Originally Posted by eKretz

What the... Sebastian asked about finishers and doesn't mention Thuringian stones?! Lol, the world has turned upside down!

Upss seems i missed something important...so well...yes thuringian Stones must be on the List ;-) thanks Eric for the reminder!

going to take a look of them. but thuringian are not so slow hones?