Thread: Smiths tri stone

It's funny you bring up the Smith's Tri hone. That's what I honed my first two razors on about a year and a half ago. It was the razor I had sitting in my drawer for 20 years and the one I got from my barber. I actually got both razors to shave fairly decent and I shaved with both of them for the first few weeks until I ordered my Dovo Bismark from SRD. When it came in the mail and I shaved with it for the first time, I learned what a razor should shave like. I was never able to duplicate that kind of edge until I got my set of Nortons. The last post said something about not having to lap them anytime too soon. That may be the case with the medium and fine but I know when I hone a knife on the course, I always have a lot of grit that comes off in the process which tells me it would need to be lapped. Now granted, you would only want to use the course for setting a bevel. The one thing that bothered me with my Tri hone is the stones are not that wide or long and you are constantly having to draw both the toe and heel across the edge of the stone. Hey! if you get it and find it doesn't work well, you still have a good hone for your pocket knives.