Quote Originally Posted by 10Pups View Post
I have a (you guessed it) NOS DD barbers hone that I swore I would never use. ( Your twisting my arm here) It has 2 sides and the finishing side feels a lot softer than my 12k Nani. More like some fine naturals Wolf has given me the opportunity to hold. Any barbers hone must have done the trick because that's all they had :<0) .
I have the DD dry razor hone. Lapped when I got it although it was like new due to slight dish in middle meaning only the edges were being used. Found it to work slow but used it after an 8k and both sides improved the edge.

Quote Originally Posted by edhewitt View Post

As an aside, before all the synthetics were easily available, what did people do once the barbers hone stopped being effective, if they left it too long before maintaining it? i realise that naturals would have been around, but I am sure folks didnt have the cash for a pipe of hones.
And what about lapping in the old days too?
This is a genuine question, I am not just following you round being argumentative today
Logical. The local barber sharpened razors