Thread: Frictionite 00

Originally Posted by brooksie967

why would you put it on a barbers hone? Why not go back to the 8k and finish your progression as per?

Sorry if i've made this more complicated than necessary, just wondering where these tools fit in! If you've finished on a finisher, why take it to a barbers hone then strop and shave again????

Y'know those smocks with two waist pockets that barbers used to wear ? In one of those pockets old Frank Natale used to keep a Swaty barber hone. When he would be shaving a customer if the razor wasn't quite keen enough to suit him, and the strop wasn't bringing it back to quite enough keenness, he would grab that Swaty and do 3 or 4 round trips on the dry barber hone. Put it back in his pocket and resume the shave. That is what it was for.

A guy who isn't a barber but shaves with a straight razor ..... like me for example. Keeps a Swaty (could be any barber hone) in his medicine cabinet. In the same case as aforementioned , if the razor needs it and I am in the midst of a shave, 3 or 4 round trips. Going back to the regular hones would be reserved for later when free time was available.