Thread: Any thoughts on the new "La Lune"?

I have two, 150 x 60, both great.

I’m still experimenting, but this is a really good razor finisher. And that’s quite a compliment for newly minted stones. Congrats to Nicholas and company. Don’t raise prices!

Originally Posted by STF

HaHa, i had a feeling your HAD would get the better of you Dave. Well done Sir. Now my wife might think about it on the grounds that lots of other guys have them.

I can dream can't I? I'll probably end up getting a secret one.

She: "Darling, I bought myself a new pair of shoes, do you like them?"
Steve: "Did you really need another pair of shoes?"
She: "Of course, I need that pair as the colour and style match my new handbag"
Steve: "You never told me you bought yourself a new handbag"
She: "You must have forgotten, I told you when you were honing your razors"
Steve:"Now that you mention honing razors, there's some guys in Europe that revived an ancient brand of French hones, I really need one to hone my French razors. French razors don't like foreign hones"
She: "Do you really need more hones?"
Steve: "Of course I do. You buy two shoes for one handbag, can't you allow me one hone for my French razors?"
She: "Well if you insist. I can get you one for your birthday"

Just goes to show you don't need a secret hone.

Just a French razor.

Originally Posted by Kees

She: "Darling, I bought myself a new pair of shoes, do you like them?"
Steve: "Did you really need another pair of shoes?"
She: "Of course, I need that pair as the colour and style match my new handbag"
Steve: "You never told me you bought yourself a new handbag"
She: "You must have forgotten, I told you when you were honing your razors"
Steve:"Now that you mention honing razors, there's some guys in Europe that revived an ancient brand of French hones, I really need one to hone my French razors. French razors don't like foreign hones"
She: "Do you really need more hones?"
Steve: "Of course I do. You buy two shoes for one handbag, can't you allow me one hone for my French razors?"
She: "Well if you insist. I can get you one for your birthday"

Just goes to show you don't need a secret hone.

A very useful post, I might have to use it next time my wife and i discuss my silly shaving stuff that is so expensive.
I do actually have a Thiers Issard and it would probably get a much better edge on a french hone.

Actually it's not so much the razors she objects to because i always give her the US prices and that makes them sound cheaper.
What she really objects to is the soaps, "how much expensive smelly shaving soap does one face need?".
And the hones, " It's blunt or it's sharp, how many hones does that take. If you got good enough at honing maybe you wouldn't need so many".

I don't even have that many, YET.

Steve,

Just post a picture of Outback’s collection on the wall near yours. It’ll be rather like my standing beside Shaquille O’Neal.

You could also have her watch this Youtube video: https://youtu.be/PqRct7mmES0

Originally Posted by Kees

She: "Darling, I bought myself a new pair of shoes, do you like them?"
Steve: "Did you really need another pair of shoes?"
She: "Of course, I need that pair as the colour and style match my new handbag"
Steve: "You never told me you bought yourself a new handbag"
She: "You must have forgotten, I told you when you were honing your razors"
Steve:"Now that you mention honing razors, there's some guys in Europe that revived an ancient brand of French hones, I really need one to hone my French razors. French razors don't like foreign hones"
She: "Do you really need more hones?"
Steve: "Of course I do. You buy two shoes for one handbag, can't you allow me one hone for my French razors?"
She: "Well if you insist. I can get you one for your birthday"

Just goes to show you don't need a secret hone.

Did you notice one key thing here though. Which is so true. When the wife buys these things it is just to buy them. When it is for the guy it becomes I can get it for your Birthday. LOL. This is why you don't tell them about them all. Just bought myself a sleeping pad for camping. Guess what. Happy Fathers day to me.

Originally Posted by Kees

She: "Darling, I bought myself a new pair of shoes, do you like them?"
Steve: "Did you really need another pair of shoes?"
She: "Of course, I need that pair as the colour and style match my new handbag"
Steve: "You never told me you bought yourself a new handbag"
She: "You must have forgotten, I told you when you were honing your razors"
Steve:"Now that you mention honing razors, there's some guys in Europe that revived an ancient brand of French hones, I really need one to hone my French razors. French razors don't like foreign hones"
She: "Do you really need more hones?"
Steve: "Of course I do. You buy two shoes for one handbag, can't you allow me one hone for my French razors?"
She: "Well if you insist. I can get you one for your birthday"

Just goes to show you don't need a secret hone.

Exactly... that's why my jewelry guy is on speed dial. Although my wife has now started to ask whenever more jewelry shows up "What is it you're trying to buy now?"

OK. I couldn’t wait any longer and unwrapped the la Lune.

I felt guilty undoing the extremely classy wrapping in which it arrived. Blue crepe wrapping paper sealed with a “Lune” wax seal and closed with an expertly tied ribbon of jute. I have carefully saved the seal, the certificate of authenticity, but had to tear the wrapping paper and feel bad about that.

I honed a Clauss 5/8 hollow ground recently finished on a coticule that was shaving well just to see what the la Lune would add/subtract.

I really enjoy my coticule edges and find them comfortably keen without being harsh. I decided to use the new stone to do a quick touch up.

Using 1 layer of electrical tape and glycerine and water and weight of the razor only I did 15 X-strokes on the la Lune. I then stropped 40 times on my Japanese horse leather strop. My soap was Panacrema Nuavia Negro lathered with an Omega boar brush.

Bottom line: my shave was very good. There was no degrading of the coticule edge. The feel and feedback from the hone was quite good.

Do I feel I have maxed out the finish the la Lune is capable of? No. Naturals take time to figure out.

It’s taken me a while to feel good about honing with my coticules and I imagine there will be a similar learning curve with this new stone. That’s what makes natural stones more interesting than synthetics

I’m thinking that these do better with a freshly prepped edge, 8-12k. But I have not had mine that long either.

Sounds like we have a winner!

Please people... buy them all up so there are none left for me next month to order once I arrive in Japan... save me...