Thread: The Frankonian Hone

Well…I have been working with my for mentioned Frankonian stone and have made quite a lit of headway.
Number 1 is that you have to rough it up some. I used my DMT x-course to resurface the already flat stone and it made a world of difference. It now finishes as well as my Black surgical (only does it faster). I am really impressed with the finish it produces.

I also tried to smooth it up from what you see and it didn’t perform as well.

Stingray

See the pictures:

Roughing a stone up like that will make it coarser and faster. In other words you turned a finisher in a pre-finisher

Originally Posted by Piet

Roughing a stone up like that will make it coarser and faster. In other words you turned a finisher in a pre-finisher

Nope...still a finisher. The scratches aren't as course as they look.

And I might add the Idea of roughing it up was Glens Idea in #13.

OK, Totally confused now....A Frankonian Hone by any other name?

The one I acquired from a VERY reputable vendor looks nothing like the ones shown on this thread.

Franke_13.pdf





Is this the same hone or not?

I am not an expert on these at all, but from what I have seen and read yours looks like a real one and don't know what these in this old thead are. They are not the same thing. I have been looking for and reading up on these.

Originally Posted by dta116

OK, Totally confused now....A Frankonian Hone by any other name?

The one I acquired from a VERY reputable vendor looks nothing like the ones shown on this thread.

Is this the same hone or not?

Dave, this older thread is about a completely different stone. The stone was sold by a german seller (Olivia). She produces mainly soaps and had some interest also in straight razors and sharpening when she started. Together with her brother who is a geologist or something like this if I remember correct, she found a very hard stone somewhere, maybe in the Frankonian area, that could be used as endfinisher for straights and she sold the stone in her shop. She never disclose the secret where the stones came from - at least not to me -and she doesn't sell the stones any more in her shop nowadays. These stones have nothing in common with the vintage frankonian hones that I have reported. They are totally different in look, hardness and performance, not bad though if used as endfinisher.