Thread: barber hones

I want to get a barber hone. I didn't think it was going to be that complicated. I would like to hear opinions from people who own multiple barber hones. How do they rank in order of smooth finishing. I realize that they don't exactly work out as to grits so the answers will be opinions, and thats what I'm looking for. What's in your collection and how do you rate them for smoothness of finish?

Rez,
A lot has been talked about pertaining to barber hones; so you might "short change " yourself with only the replies to this thread.
I suggest you use the "Advanced Search" button, above right & put in keywords such as barber hone, Swaty, & any other Barber hone name that you can think of. This will produce the barber hone related threads. Hours of good reading with photographs.

I'm fortunate enough to have several; they all vary in smoothness, even the Swaty's .
Try the search.

I have actually done quite a few searches, and read quite a lot. That is in part why I asked the question. I was trying to avoid what I did with razors. Buy everything and then try to figure it out. Although if I develop HAD it may temporarily distract me from my RAD.

There was a thread in here someplace where one of the members had collected information on a whole bunch of different barbers stones. I'm sure a better searcher than I can locate it (especially if they can remember who was doing it)

I've had a swaty, a random long dark brown barber hone with no markings and two am. hone co. barbers hones. The two am hone co hones are awesome. I'd put them at 12k easily and no issues with harsh edges on either of them. All depends on your budget!! there are quite a few frictionites up on ebay right now

I just bought a frictionite off off the classifieds and a franz swaty three line. I am curious to see how it all works out. Mostly I am trying to come up with an easy system for edge maintenance for my two boys. They are both in there early 20's. I have no issues but they have to swap out razor with me regularly and the post is getting too much. Mostly it's a quick touch up and gone. It will all get figured out in the end. Thanks for the input. It is exactly what I was hoping to hear but didn't want to get too far into it and find out it was the wrong path.