What is your favorite whetstone/hone???

I would like answers from people that have different selections of stones. If you only own 1 or 2 stones then your answer would restrictive in knowledge and more based on opinion, so.

What is your favorite all around whetstone, natural or synthetic?

What is your favorite bevel setter?

What is your favorite finisher?

Right now I'd have to say my coti is my favorite go to hone, and I can use it for anything from bevel setting to finishing. My favorite bevel setter is my Norton 1000 and my favorite finisher is my coti. Looking hard at the Jnat Kiita, vintage thuringian and new escher for finishers though and just trying them out.

Hands down for Bevel is chosera 1k. Playing with finishers but i cant seem to stay away from my shapton 16k. This may change as im experimenting

synthetik: Shapton pro 2000
natural: all of my oozukus

Hmm, let's see now;

For bevel setting, my Chosera 1K. A wonderfully effective yet gentle tool for the job.

My best finisher is hard to choose, there are so many good ones.
If I had to pick, I would choose my Suehiro Gokumyo 20K, a synthetic, or my Nakayama Maruka Asagi.

I have not used enough stones to give any kind of empirically valid answer to your question. Besides that, I am still learning how to get the best out of some of my stones, and that will probably continue for a long time yet.

However, on a pure "my heart breaks into a big sloppy smile whenever I use it" kind of criteria, my Nakayama maruka asagi fits that bill. It makes my fingers itch, and I am starting to develop the razor version of Munchausen's Syndrome By Proxy.... :D

James.

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Originally Posted by xMackx

What is your favorite all around whetstone, natural or synthetic? All of them, I "get rid" of the ones that do not appeal to me. The one stone that I pull out most often is the Shapton GS 16K. Once you really learn the GS's they are very awesome. I may end up changing my mind to a coti if the oil works as well as I hear for finishing...

What is your favorite bevel setter? Chosera 1K, aka the big "green brick".

What is your favorite finisher? All of them. If I had to choose just one, I would say y/g Escher after Shapton 16K, however my heart still belongs to my Charnley Forrest. Everything I hone will visit the Shapton GS 16K before a finisher, period.

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It is always interesting to see just how you gentlemen hone, you never know what's going to come up.

Definitely like my Chosera 1K and 2K for bevel setting. For sharpening and polishing, I really like my Ozuku Kiita San.

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Bevel Setting: Chosera 1k (for rough work, the Chosera 1k with Coticule slurry).

For Feel/Fav Stone: Norton 8k, it's like stroking a piece of velvet.

Finisher: Escher or Charnley Forest, I go back and forth and just can't pick one.

Bevel setter: Norton 1k

Sharpener/Polisher: Norton 4k/8k

Finisher: Naniwa 12k (though some of my razors prefer the coticule treatment)

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

Interesting to see everyones favorite stones. Looks like Ozukus, coticules, and chosera seems to pop up the most.

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Originally Posted by xMackx

Interesting to see everyones favorite stones. Looks like Ozukus, coticules, and chosera seems to pop up the most.

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I totally forgot to list my Ozuku , I love it! :)

Chosera 1K bevel setter

Coticule pre-polisher

Ozuku Asagi finisher

For bevels: Chosera 1k

For middle work: 4/8k Norton, or Shapton pros

Finishing: if synth, than 10 or 12k naniwa, if natural than a nice Jnat I got from Jim

I am undecided which stones I like the best, the only fix point in my honing array is the 400 Atoma for lapping, and 1k Chosera, I am glad I bought those.