Thread: What is your favorite whetstone/hone???

Chosera 1k for the bevel.

Norton 8k to start the fine work.

Nakayama Maruichi Asagi to finish.

I do, however, jump from stone to stone simply because I have them.

Jerry
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Put me down for the Chosera 1k as my bevel setter.

For finishing, I've grown very fond of my Escher's these days.

My favorite is a vintage coticule combo bout. I use it for everything.

Bevel setter: Norton 1K

Sharpener/Polisher: Norton 4000/8000

Finisher: Shapton 16,000

xMackx,

Bevel setter Naniwa SuperStone 1k

Synthetic sequence Naniwa SuperStone 3, 5 & 8 k or Norton 4/8 k

Natural La Veinette or La Verte coticule

Finisher Naniwa 12 k or Charnley Forest

Have fun !

Best regards

Russ

Favorite hone... the norton 4k/8k combo hone.
Hands down it gets used most.

I have an active contest going on between
my 10K and finer finishing and maintenance hones.
That contest involves these contenders:

• Naniwa Superstone 12K
• Naniwa Chosera 10k
• SIGMA Select II 13k
• Spyderco Ultra Fine ceramic with sub-micron spray.
• Selected barber hones
• Submicron spray on glass.
• 0.25 micron film on glass.

All of them, I have no favourites.

However, my main work horses are a King 1000/6000 combi and a coticule. My preferred finisher is an unidentified/unidentifiable green hone but I have just received a 12K naniwa that I have yet to play around with properly.

Bevels: Chosera 1k

System: Shapton GS, honorable mention to the Norton 4/8k

Finisher: Shapton 30k, a fine C12K, "hybrid" side of a Les Lat cori.

I love my hones, which one is my favourite depends on the razor, job at hand and my mood.

I like the 1k C for bevel work. then its my coticule from there on.coticule is just always been my favourite stone . Not for the best of best, but for what they are , they just apeal to me, and i can get shave ready edge every time. paste arn't mentioned, But i realy don't mind finishing with ti white paste or ti cronium oxide. Its brill stuff. I've tryed eschers and j nats , i would say my smoothest ever edges, i have experianced from any of my hones, has to be the ozuku , but i still prefer to use the coticules..

gary