Thread: Destroyed My Shapleigh Barber's Hone

Hello All,

I am sorry to say that while I was straightening up my shaving area my Shapleigh Barber's hone dropped, striking the toilet and breaking into 2 pieces.

I feel horrible to have broken it. I only used it 1 time before I destroyed it. I have a CK12 but that sounds like I need to do a lot of laps with slurry. I have a Norton 8K but that sounds like it is too abrasive to use as a touch up hone.

It there anyway to smooth out the now rough edges and use the large half of the hone?



Thank you,
--Shoki

sorry to hear and c the damage to that poor hone, you should be ok to use the larger half but barber hones are small as is now u have half the work area, so it might be more practical to get a new barbers hone. If you do get a new one i reccomend a Laudys hone, there were made in pa(close to me) and i have one and love it.

Sorry for your loss. A barber hone is a terrible thing to waste. Oh well, it's done. You can still use the larger piece. There are barber hones that are smaller than that.

Now you just need to chamfer the sides, or actually, just one side. I see no point in chamfering the ends because you don't hone all the way to the end anyway, but you can if you wish. Now, if you only have a chip on one side of the hone, then you don't need to chamfer anything. The reason is that you can simply hone with the chip opposite the honing hand. If you do it that way, then the chip will have no impact on the honing.

If you do want or need to chamfer the hone, you can use wet/dry sandpaper on a flat surface under running water to chamfer the straight edges. To chamfer the chipped part of the side, you can wrap a round dowel or other cylindrical object with the sandpaper.

Oh, and don't throw away the smaller part. You can use it as a slurry stone!

Originally Posted by Utopian

Oh, and don't throw away the smaller part. You can use it as a slurry stone!

lol - Now there's looking on the bright side! The world could use more optimism like this...

Shoki, sorry about the hone. I'd definitely try to salvage something out of the pieces, and if it doesn't work out just move on and try something else.

This is a suggestion born of ignorance, but it seems if you could find a glue that will hold the pieces together but is actually softer than the hone material, then you could join the pieces and lap the surface and get back to honing.

I epoxied a scythe hone a few years ago, and the epoxy has not worn away even though it's in the working zone. So epoxy probably isn't the answer.

I am sad for you. I know how awful I'd feel if I broke one of my razor hones. Good luck finding a satisfying solution.

That sucks...sorry for the loss Hopefully you'll still be able to make it work.

That's unfortunate!
But, if you are no longer comfortable using it on your razors, move it to the kitchen. I use a barber hone to touch up my knives while cooking. The smaller size shouldn't be a problem, as long as you watch out for your thumb

regards,
Torolf