Thread: Name Your Favorite Finisher ..... Poll (multiple choice)

Coticule, for various reasons, the main one being that the only other finishing hone I have used so far was an Escher (which did not offer any improvement over my Coticule, actually quite the contrary). It might have made sense to encourage the participants in this poll to name the hones with which they actually have significant experience (in which case I would have abstained ).

As an aside, a hone from the Free State of Thuringia (Thürigen) would be a Thuringian (Thüringer), would it not?

Regards,
Robin

Originally Posted by BeBerlin

Coticule, for various reasons.

As an aside, a hone from the Free State of Thuringia (Thürigen) would be a Thuringian (Thüringer), would it not?

A rose by any other name is still a rose .... but you are right of course.

No write-in for a C12k?

Seriously, though, I love my Shapton Glass 30k, but not all of my razors seem to respond equally well to it, while I've found the People's Hone will invariably produce at least a good 'nuff edge after a few (hundred) strokes.

Originally Posted by northpaw

No write-in for a C12k?

Seriously, though, I love my Shapton Glass 30k, but not all of my razors seem to respond equally well to it, while I've found the People's Hone will invariably produce at least a good 'nuff edge after a few (hundred) strokes.

TBH it didn't pop into my head when I made the poll. If I had thought of it I certainly would have included it over the spyderco or the tam simply because it is a more commonly used stone. An oversight that was unintentional. IOW, not because of any negative opinion on the stone.

We can insert C12k into the matrix and remove Spyderco. We have the technology...

Originally Posted by holli4pirating

We can insert C12k into the matrix and remove Spyderco. We have the technology...

Please do

Done9381293

For the longest time my favourite high grit synthetic was the 10k Sigma Power. I've seen it described as the poor man's Chosera, but I think that does it a great disservice. More recently however, I've been playing around with a 20k Suehiro Gokumyou line hone. I haven't stopped using the Sigma stone altogether, but the addition of the Suehiro adds a great deal of smoothness to the sharp (but sometimes harsh), edge of the Sigma.

Naturals are a different matter as I'm always experimenting with whatever obscure hone has been my latest acquisition. I have a Nakayama which the seller had rated at about 40k, but which cost a lot less than some of my Asagi/ Kiita hones. Sentiment plays a part in my attachment to this particular hone, it was the first really high-end finisher that I bought, and apart from the Bester hones I use for bevel-setting this is the hone I've had the longest and know the best.

I've always been partial to Charnley hones as well. I don't have a Charnwood hone from the Thringstone Quarry (yet), but my Whittle Hill CF's get a lot of regular use on my personal shavers.

Finally, I have an unusual Yellow Lake Oilstone, which is a siltstone, not the typical slate from the Melynllyn Quarry. Very fast cutting hone and also much finer than other Yellow Lakes I've got.

The above mentioned hones are my three regular finishers and they all get about equal use, so I really couldn't narrow them down to just the one based on performance. As mentioned earlier, I have a sentimental attachment to the Nakayama, but that is the only thing that differentiates it from the other two.

Two of my most recent acquisitions, however, may supplant the CF's and the YLO. One is a Virginia Oilstone and the other a hone-slate from Cape Arguille. I haven't used then enough to be drawing any definitive conclusions, but they are about as fine as anything else I've tried thus far. At the moment I'm still experimenting to get the most from these hones, but the Cape Arguille slate in particular, is looking likely to become a regular fixture in my honing routine.

Kindest regards,
Alex

I only have the Shaptons on glass at the moment and I finish on the 16k, which I really like!

After experiencing a Dubl Duck that Holli4 honed on Naniwas (such a smooth sharp edge, I love it!), I'm mad keen to get a set of those though to see if I can get anywhere close to that level..! And I'd also like to get a coticule as well. Oh, and an Asagi, and an Escher and....

I was using a few, but I recently acquired a chosera 10k. It's very fast for the nice finish it leaves and is my current go to finisher.