Thread: Not exactly a hone but maybe

If they are really that hard, then it makes me wonder if they would work like a Spyderco hone? Where the "grit" is ground into the surface texture of the stone/ceramic.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

So a few nights ago I had this dream.....I was sitting at the kitchen counter honing razors on the quartz countertops and then the missus comes along a lops me across the side of my head with a cast iron pancake griddle and while I'm in the floor I think gee the ceramic floor tiles would make a great hone and the missus doesn't like that either and then I spy the dog's ceramic food dish and I think that would make a great hone. She doesn't like that idea and grabs her dish and runs off with it and then I think the stucco on the side of the house would make a great hone.

It's a good thing I woke up then. No telling where that was going to go.

Har har.

Switch to lapping film.

Originally Posted by CrescentCityRazors

Well, you could glue it to a suitable backing, lay it on some of that non-slip shelf liner stuff on a table or something, and bench hone with it. Just as an academic exercise sort of thing.

Yeah maybe but the issue is it's my right hand that's out of commission and I'm right handed. I actually tried it a little now that my forefinger are "bird" finger are out but I just still don't have the fine dexterity. I tried stropping with my left hand but I put one little knick in it and quit while I was ahead.

Originally Posted by PaulFLUS

Yeah maybe but the issue is it's my right hand that's out of commission and I'm right handed. I actually tried it a little now that my forefinger are "bird" finger are out but I just still don't have the fine dexterity. I tried stropping with my left hand but I put one little knick in it and quit while I was ahead.

Sometimes I hone off handed so the swarf is coming at me and I can see it without looking over the razor. But I have never even though about trying to strop off handed. It'd be like going back in time when I had to pause at the end of each push/pull and think how to rotate the razor.

After I was in a cast I came out of it being way more ambidextrous than before. But, I had to do pretty much everything left handed. And by the end of it, even things I could have possibly done with my right hand were just easier left handed.