Thread: Marble Straight Razor Hone?

Can't see it would work well TBH, looks a bit falic though.

Probably more in line with polishing the edge like a finer grit hone. I would never use it. You would have to keep the razor perfectly vertical to the balls.

http://straightrazorpalace.com/hones...-get-shot.html

It requires an abrasive mixture between the balls.

It looks like it could double as a sextoy, someone even said it might be useful for doing kegels.

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?

It's been a while since I've seen one of those, over forty years. They were sold by street vendors seasonally in the streets of Buenos Aires and were meant to sharpen kitchen knives and scissors to razor sharpness. Only once I saw one the charlatans barking about actual shaving implements, this particular one sporting a Gillette blade and running it through a brick, attempting to cut his tongue (mercifully without success) and then "honing" it on this device and cutting paper with it.

I never owned one, but I recall them in blue, green and clear glass.

Mind you, the same charlatans would sell "cold chroming" liquid and test it on coins out of your pocket... which sadly returned to their former non-chromed status within a few hours. Just enough to make a few sales and bail, I guess. Based on this alone I'd say this device is useless for razors, and probably close to it for knives and scissors too.

As to how they "work"...My WAG would be that the working principle is that they flatten the edge between the glass balls, somewhat restoring the semblance of an edge. It could work too, if the balls were hard enough and held together with enough force.


Marcos

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.