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    Default Circles on a barber hone.

    Has anyone tried circles on a barber hone?

    I am wondering if anyone has tried this and on what
    type of barber hone.

    I ask because I have a potato chip of a WB razor
    that does not lay flat on a big hone but seems to
    like my small carborundum brand barber hone. Parts
    of the edge are not yet well tamed yet and I was pondering
    ways to make a good shaver out of it.

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    I played around with it a while back on a long Swaty that I had. I found that it worked quite well, so long as I ensured I totally replaced the random scratch marks from the circles with regular scratch marks from X stroke when I finished the razor.

    I also tried it on a C12k to cut down on the lap count, but here the scratches were too fine for me to see with the naked eye so I'm not totally sure what happend on that front. Regardless, the results were quite nice.

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    I've had nice results on a 2" wide finishing hone doing conservative circles to refresh an edge. Shaved like new. Don't know what potato chip means but the razor in question was 13/16th. It laid flat, however. I would think rolling strokes/x-pattern are important for getting the entire edge actually honed.

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    There is a stroke that has an almost full circle at each end of the hone and then an X stroke in the middle...I have used this on Barber hones to great success, there was a vid of an old barber using it on a Coticule on here...
    If I were going to name it, I would call it a Pigtail...

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    Quote Originally Posted by gssixgun View Post
    There is a stroke that has an almost full circle at each end of the hone and then an X stroke in the middle...I have used this on Barber hones to great success, there was a vid of an old barber using it on a Coticule on here...
    If I were going to name it, I would call it a Pigtail...

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    I never get tired of watching that video. The thing that is unique about it, to me anyway, is that I don't get any sense at all that he is honing the razor. Instead, it looks more like he is shaving the hone! I often try to remember this difference when I am doing finishing strokes at the end of honing.

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    Thank you Ben that is the one, exactly....

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    I think you can do circles on the barber hone without any problems. Sometimes I will do 20 circles on each side followed by 5-10 X strokes on finishing hones when a razor is almost there. I have done the same thing with barber hones with varying degrees of success. Definitely worth trying.

    Have fun,

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    I've used them on a Swaty, Frictionite 00, Dubl Duck, Apart, and a couple of others.

    I reserve circles for removing steel faster than a straighter stroke will. That means I only use circles on a barber hone if I believe that it will be quicker than breaking out (and then cleaning up) a somewhat coarser hone to do the same work. That doesn't happen very often; but it does happen.

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    In watching the video, I get the impression that the intent of the circle stroke is not so much a honing stroke so much as a redistribution of the slurry across the width of the hone following the x-stroke.

    Any opinions?

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