Thread: Wife approved honing station !!!

Originally Posted by MikekiM

Even though I have solved the issues of consolidating things when I am not honing, in a fashion acceptable to SHMBO, I still get glares and comments when I setup to do some razors.. Most often it's limited to a look from the corner of her eye and a comment of 'just too many...' and I only have a dozen or so.

Some battles are worth fighting. This one, however, is all about staying under the radar.

What they don't know won't hurt you.

Secrecy and stealth are necessary traits for hard core wet shavers.

Originally Posted by rolodave

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Secrecy and stealth are necessary traits for hard core wet shavers.

At least those with SO's> Or...should that be SOS?
~Richard

That works until SWMBO realizes a cabinet drawer is missing.

I just moved all of my hones to one of the book shelves IN THE LIVING ROOM! I'm waiting for them to get noticed. I'm practicing my response, "I've had all those for a long time", with emphasis on "long".

Here is what I get to use. Its indoors and I make the best of it.

Originally Posted by rolodave

Hi Birnando
Do you think you have enough stones?

The number of stones I have is a problem for me. I've got maybe a dozen or fifteen. That's too many, since I feel the obligation to use them all at some point, even though some seem definitely preferable to others. But I figure if I get some more, that will solve the problem.

After a friendly reminder that I had stuff all over the kitchen table, I decided to make good on the storage bag.
I had this bag already and now it's been put to good use. Room for a few more stones or accessories if needed.

I made something like that for pistol cleaning, but it has to live in the garage between uses because of the lingering odor of Hoppe's....

Originally Posted by gssixgun

Don't know how your house works, but in mine it is rather simple

"Happy Wife Happy Life"

Wifey was beginning to give me some flak about having the hones always out on the coffee table, and here I thought is was working well

Spend much of they day in the shop working on restores and stacking razors for honing each night, figured after dinner I spent a few hours after dinner watching TV with her and honing razors..
She of course didn't see it that way, she saw an extension of the workshop in her Living room and that is where the fight started (you have heard those jokes right)

Anyway I came up with a simple solution

"The Honing Tray"

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I built is to fit all the tools I need and it is simple to pick up off the coffee table and move out of sight so the wife is happy.. Waterproof outdoor paint and a few coats of Spray Poly should keep it in shape for some years.. Hopefully it might give you an idea if your better half has had it with hones all over the house

***Laying a towel under everything there is the normal way, but I left it out so you could see the tray***

Originally Posted by rolodave

What they don't know won't hurt you.

Secrecy and stealth are necessary traits for hard core wet shavers.

Like the secret route to the mailbox?

Originally Posted by Haroldg48

I made something like that for pistol cleaning, but it has to live in the garage between uses because of the lingering odor of Hoppe's....

Strange, isn't Hoppe's an after shave?

Bob