Thread: What is your main finishing Hone?

Originally Posted by Birnando

How do you find it this far Rune? I know you said your first couple attempts was good, but knowing you, there have been quite a few more razor put to it now

I've done 6 razors full progression and a couple just finishing and the results from it is amazing.

I was just browsing Maksim's page, looking at a Ozuku Asagi and a Shoubudani

Originally Posted by Zephyr

I've done 6 razors full progression and a couple just finishing and the results from it is amazing.

I was just browsing Maksim's page, looking at a Ozuku Asagi and a Shoubudani

Oh my
A slippery slope my friend, a very slippery slope

Ozuku Mizo Asagi.

"Main Finishing Hone", made by the Main Finishing Hone Company, based in Maine in a little town called Finishing Hone.

James.

Originally Posted by Birnando

Oh my
A slippery slope my friend, a very slippery slope

Yes, very...

James.

Yes, alright. My main finishing hone is a Nakayama Asagi thingy.

James.

Originally Posted by gssixgun

I leave it up to the razor to chose

Yep 8 months ago and still the exact same answer as when this thread first started, I set the bevel on a Chosera 1k "Green Brick" and get a feel for the steel, then the razor tells me where it wants to go

Originally Posted by jdto

Mine is my Norton 8k. I've finished all my honing jobs on that one.

All 2 of them.

Same here. Norton 8K and then 0.5 CrOx impregnated balsa. So far, so good for this noob. Probably have honed a dozen.

Congrats to those of you finishing on an 8k. For a couple of years, when I first started honing razors, I ended on an 8k Norton. Getting a good shave off an 8k w/ or w/o a CrOx or other past says that you know how to hone a razor. I've always told people that anything over an 8k is useless unless you can get a good shave off the 8k's and it is still true. It's very tempting to move up to a finer grit before the previous hone has given it's all and over 8k (still true for the courser grits but at a lesser level). At this fine level the value earned for the effort is a shiny bevel and little effect on the edge proper.

My most used B/G Thuri(thankyou JimmyHAD) but I am now experimenting with a PHIG and a Welsh claimed 15K? My first finisher was a King 6k which I found paled by comparison to a Norton 8K I used for sometime. Then Thuri entered my life and now I can't stop buying stones.