Thread: The Hone stone Poll

Most commonly I use

Norton 1000 (or start with 220 if needed)
Norton 4000
Norton 8000
coticule or Escher
Nakayama Asagi
Nakayama Namito

If I'm not happy after the 8k, I'll switch to

coticule with slurry
bbw with slurry
coticule with water
Nakayama Asagi
Nakayama Namito

I use permutations of all of the options in the poll but I don't use ChromeOx.

New to honing, but currently using:

1k shapton
2k shapton
4k shapton
Surgical black Arkansas
1 micron diamond paste on felt wool
0.5 micron CrOx on linen
Latigo 3" leather

Mac

My progression is slightly different lately.

1,2,4,8,16k Shapton GS followed by either:

30k Shapton GS, or Maruichi Nakayama.

These are the only hones I use, I've passed
on the rest of the ones that I have owned.

- Scott

1K,Coticule with slurry, 8K, Coticule wet, 16K, 0.5 diamond paste, 0.25 diamond paste, then Chromium. Works very well for me. Drop down to 16K every week and work down using very few laps. Every 1.5 months go down to the Coticule with slurry and work down.

Take Care,
Richard

On a rebuild I use the Shapton glass stones in 1k, 3k, Norton 8k, and shapton GS 16k.

Maintnance honeing uses the Oohira hone, coticule, and than Cro2 leather. I'm still trying to figure out if the Oohira stone is the same as the coticule, I just don't know at this time. I just know that the shave in the above line up is very good, next time I'll cut out one stone and see what happens.

220, 221.....whatever it takes..............................

Lynn

Hi folks,

I voted "Other:"
Eze-Lap 600 sharpening rod to set bevel.
Smith's soft and hard Arkansas to hone.
Illinois #361 leather (lotsa laps) to smooth.
Illinois #361 canvas to refresh before the leather.

Thanks for this poll. It's fun to see all the different
ways one can hone a razor. :-)

Jeff

Here is my routine, it is a combination of stones and lapping films


1k NANIWA

5k NANIWA

8k NANIWA

1u Diamond Film

.5u Diamond Film

CRoX on Leather ( hand american kind)

Black Latigo.


cheers
D

Naniwa Chosera 1k or Bester 1200x

Synthetic aoto

Naniwa Chosera 5k

Naniwa Chosera 10k

Leather w/chromium oxide

I've had 3 excellent shave with a 1 week old razor doing this:
(keep in mind, I'm new at this straight razor thing)

Zwilling J.A. Henckels Twin Finishing Stone (very soft rocks)
3000 / 8000 - i haven't used the 3000 yet

Shapton 16k about 15 - 20 passes

El Cheapo Jemico canvas backing(i lost count after 100 passes)
then about 20 passes (back and forth equals 1 pass) on the other leather side

i check with a 16x loupe then return to the canvas

I've noticed the more passes on leather, the more visible the canvas lines.
if the canvas lines show up after 20 leather passes I know I don't need the leather, I need to remove more metal.

i repeat the last 3 steps until I can't distinguish the canvas lines then leather 100 final passes.

check loupe for canvas lines. when they are gone I put 2 drops of oil on the blade for safety
Damn that thing is sharp!

I think for tomorrow's shave I'm gonna lower the leather passes. I'm not sure how dull the razor gets after 1 shave.

All you guys in the know, tell me if there is anything else I should consider.
I'm happy with the shaves, but I'm still working on light touches while shaving against the grain