Thread: Marble Straight Razor Hone?

ezpz makes sense in that the only area that would come in contact would be the points where the bevel meets the grind, not the edge where the two sides of the bevel come together. Basically you would just round off your bevel not the actual cutting edge.

Funny. I saw the title of this thread and immediately thought "huh, a slab of marble might make a damn fine finishing hone--I wounder what the grit of a flat slab of marble would be?"

Instead, i got a load of phalli, balls and charlatans.

I love this place.

This shape will actually burnish the edge to some degree giving you a pseudo sharpening effect.

I doubt as already mentioned you would benifit even the most mediocre hone job with one of these gismos.

Originally Posted by wyobarbershop

i have a collection of old hones razors etc and use hem as display in my barbershop. does any one know where to find them other than ebay? ive seen red green and blue. are there any other colors?

I just picked one up yesterday in purple from an old barber who works out of the Old Cider Mill in Sterling, MA.

ive seen barber hones in yellow/black, grey, and brown as well.

There's really no way around it. It takes a flat surface with some sort of abrasive material to bring out a good edge.

Originally Posted by ezpz

but take any two circles that are tangent to each other and any angle that is greater then 0 degress (razors being about 16 degrees, and you will find the faces of the angle will contact the circles away from the point at which they are tangent and the vertex of the angel contacts nothing.

Wow. That's a lot of brain power in that one sentence!