Thread: Show Us Your Hones, Please

You all make me feel very inadequete!! I now have Hone envy along with multiple other disorders.

I need to stop looking at all these photo's on SRP. Every time I do my wallet gets lighter...

Originally Posted by mainaman

If we are talking about best of the stones,
here is mine:
Oozuko Mizu Asagi , very uniform color, light gray (true Asagi color).
The stone is the finest and smoothest out of ~45 Jnats I have tried so far.

Isn't it hell knowing the next one might be better yet ?

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

Isn't it hell knowing the next one might be better yet ?

yes hehe, but it will be very hard to find better. Those rocks tend to become very expensive for a marginal increase in quality

Here's my current stone collection. I have one more on the way, should I just leave these out so I can add to it?

Did you all notice someone voted this thread 'terrible', this person must have hone envy

Originally Posted by Piet

Here's my current stone collection. I have one more on the way, should I just leave these out so I can add to it?

Did you all notice someone voted this thread 'terrible', this person must have hone envy

I definitely have a little hone envy, but I didn't vote the thread terrible.

I just have to ask...because I'm woefully ignorant...but are all of those hones different, or are some pictured repeats?

I see all of these hones and wonder if they each have different characteristics, or if they're collected much like other items people collect; for the pleasure of having them?

I'm sure a lot of the hones pictured in this thread have unique characteristics, particularly when referring to the natural stones, but again, to my uneducated eyes I see a lot of the same size, shape, color.

I guess the question I'm getting at is; Do you guys have repeats of hones, and is there a value to having more than one of the same type (particularly synthetic)?

The naturals differ in shape, hardness, speed and grit spectrum (the abrasive particles in a stone are not all the same size). The gritrange of a certain type e.g. Coticules and Thuringians is wide enough to use 2 in progression but any more would be a bit excessive. So grit wise I couldn't justify having more than 2 of each but still each of them is unique

Originally Posted by Piet

Did you all notice someone voted this thread 'terrible', this person must have hone envy

Wrong. Hell will indeed be hot for me if despite my own collection I can't read this without yielding to envy. I cast my vote precisely because these bulk pictures at the one hand add very little in terms of hone information or aesthetics, yet on the other easily incite all sort of unpleasantness such as, yes, greed and envy. Let's face it: were we to qualify the posting of such pictures with one word, 'boasting' would not be a bad choice.

Isn't it similar to exchanging aerial pictures of the Alte Pinakothek, the Louvre, the Prado and the like, instead of devoting our time to admiring Tintoretto's Venus, Leonardo's Mona Lisa, Goya's Maja desnuda? Or indeed let others surprise us with lesser known masterpieces from modest collections?

But I repeat myself. Again.

Well I'm definitely not going to show my barber hones now!

I certainly take your point. I very much would prefer to take the time to show an individual photo and description of each hone. I don't have much free time lately and am not going to take the time to do it yet, even though Nun2Sharp asked me to do this with my barber hones two years ago. It's still on my to do list though.

While it is only one Hone, I will post pictures of it ASAP. My old Boy Scoutmaster has a Japanese Folding Razor and Hone that he found in a pillbox after he and his fellow Marines had secured Iwo Jima. He is allowing me to borrow it and the Razor so that pictures can be taken and the inscriptions can be translated.

Please keep this Thread Active if you'd like to see them!

Originally Posted by eleblu05

wow now i know why the gents with a hundred or more hones didnt post its alot of work about two hours for me to get most of them out first pic arks second pic synthetics third jnats fourth cotis fifth diamond & ceramic and sixth all stones (minus about 20 at work in my box) enjoy!

Damn!!!!!!!