Thread: What really is the best Finish Hone on the Planet ????

I think the best Finnish hone is from Sweden.

Originally Posted by gssixgun

a Japanese natural (OMG which one)

OMG you bought another already???

Aw, man!!! And I just bought a couple of stones thinking this was going to easy!!

Originally Posted by Piet

The best Finnish hone is probably the Wästilä whetstone.

Yes....Tampere University says a lot of fine
pointed things about these stones.
Study

I want one of those kitchen hones.
655 Wastila whetstone, Kitchen
https://www.brisa.fi/portal/index.ph...en&language=en

Originally Posted by Joed

While I have probably used less than most as far as finishers goes I have been around tools and metal for quite some years. From my experience and practice I have found that it is not the tools that make the end product good but the craftsman behind them. A tool, or hone in this case, is only an extension of the mind and skills of the person using them. There is no magic bullet. The right tool for the right job is the easiest way to your goal having the skill to use it properly but making a silk purse out of a sow's ear is really a feat! There is no substitute for skill regardless of the tools at hand.

Very true ! It's no so much , what you use . It's how well you use , what you have .

Great post, Glen; sticky it and wiki it. It's all relative - relative to what we measure with, what we measure against, and what the criteria of our measurement are.

What I got from this thread is that Glen is going to send everyone a different razor to shave with every day until we decide which one is the best.

Thanks Glen!

Originally Posted by HNSB

What I got from this thread is that Glen is going to send everyone a different razor to shave with every day until we decide which one is the best.

Thanks Glen!

no, no you got it wrong!!! what glen is trying to explain is that all of you must send him your best razors, then he will hone them on his best hones and send them to his best friend (yours truly) to shave with them in his best years and when he Finishes he'll tell you how each is best in its own best way.

so, everybody start packing your razors - glen's waiting.

As someone who has developed a serious obsession with obscure honestones I've had the opportunity to play around with some much rarer articles and I have to say that Virginia Oilstone is about as close to perfection as anything I've ever come across. It is a species of novaculite, albeit somewhat softer than Arkansas Whetstones, yellow/ grey in colour with an almost imperceptible grain. The main quarry was some 5 miles NE of Louisa, but there were beds of similar material exposed in other locations in the state. I have two, one I use with CircleCut cutting oil, and one I've kept clean to experiment with. It is a great stone no matter what I've used it with, but it really comes into it's own with oil. Very fast cutter for something so fine, and if I wasn't so busy/ obsessed with experimenting with other stones, it would have been my go to hone a long time ago. I still want a Devonshire Oilstone though.

Kindest regards,
Alex

Originally Posted by gugi

what glen is trying to explain is that all of you must send him your best razors, then he will hone them on his best hones and send them to his best friend (yours truly) to shave with them in his best years and when he Finishes he'll tell you how each is best in its own best way.

That sounds like a plan to me, because of course you'll need to send these out for shave-test standard evaluation in order to know how each is best in its own best way. And you know who has more profitable shave-ready standards of course