Thread: Rescuing a Barbers Hone

I had a go at rescuing a strop-backed Barbers Hone today.

I'm not the most practically gifted of people and have zero artisan skills.

I took an old AAT strop-back hone which had a worn bit of thin leather and a thick bit of felt which was coming away from the hone itself and cut up an old, cheap hanging strop and used both bits of leather from that to replace the leather and felt, in order that the hone can be used by a friend from another forum.

Here's what I started with:










The felt and adhesive washed off with detergent and I cut the bits of leather to size: