Thread: Did barber hones ever work?!

For at least three years, I have kept a separate rotation of 7 razors in my locker at a gym. I have maintained them exclusively with a Carborundum 102 and a Swaty. I pretty much alternate the two hones simply as my mood strikes me--I consider them to be interchangeable in function and could easily get by with either one alone. Despite having at home a battery of coticules, eschers, a spyderco UF, a Nakayama Asagi, and a Chinese 12K, I have never felt the need to bring any of those razors home for further touch-ups. I wanted to maintain the stuff at the gym in the same manner that an old time shaver would do. That is, with a single quality hone. I've gotten away with it for three years and I don't see the need to change from the way shaving, and honing, was done a hundred years ago.