Thread: Wife approved honing station !!!

Dining room is my office, so dining table is covered w/ my junk. Kitchen counter is 1/3 taken up by my honing & resto work. Ergo - where do we eat together?

I'll be setting up a table for my razors that frees up the kitchen bar so we can eat together - and restore domestic tranquility.

Originally Posted by pinklather

Dining room is my office, so dining table is covered w/ my junk. Kitchen counter is 1/3 taken up by my honing & resto work. Ergo - where do we eat together?

I'll be setting up a table for my razors that frees up the kitchen bar so we can eat together - and restore domestic tranquility.

I'll be sure to email your lovely bride and check on your progress.

Happy house, No Spouse

As a born-again-bachelor of thirty some years my honing station can be anywhere I want it. Storage is on top of the clothes dryer in room next to kitchen. Counter next to kitchen sink is honing central when hones are moved in from laundry room.

As I also have no female who I must appease (son's live in girlfriend doesn't count) so i usually have razor related crap scattered and all kinds of other crap either on the kitchen counter and or kitchenette table.

I really should make a more concerted effort to pick things up (there's a reason I call my apartment The Boars Nest) as sometimes, I get bit in the butt. Like the time I left my Norton 4/8 out and my son's girlfriend got some cooking oil on it. She knew that I wouldn't be happy so she grabbed the liquid dish soap and put some on the hone and 'tried' to remove the oil/didn't work but it did add some interesting 'bubbles' for a while when honing. I didn't get angry as I should have put it away.

Interestingly enough I didn't notice any difference while honing.

As far as honing at the kitchen counter/I like the level as I've tried to hone sitting down and it just doesn't work for me.

Originally Posted by Razorfeld

Happy house, No Spouse

As a born-again-bachelor of thirty some years my honing station can be anywhere I want it. Storage is on top of the clothes dryer in room next to kitchen. Counter next to kitchen sink is honing central when hones are moved in from laundry room.

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l have about 50 stones on one side of the stairway to the bedroom floor of a split level home. Very easy access to any stone I need. Wifey hightailed it in '96.. Turns out she prefers women. What a fun life it has turned out to be. Anyway, all my stones are within easy reach on the stairway adjacent to the kitchen where I do my honing.

I only hone in the shed so no problem,
But she did have something to say when She caught me looking at the bamboo breakfast tray working out how many sets of scales I could make from it LOL
So no bamboo scales and still no breakfast in bed either
jipped I recon

Hmmmm, instead of a Honing Trey that I can move out of site, I would like to build a Wife Trey that I can move out of sight.

Pics coming soon?!?!?!?!?

I'm using a couple of big plastic boxes, too, and honing on a laptop desk that I can roll in and out of the kitchen (to be near water). When I get time, though, I plan to replace the plastic boxes with a rolling hone cabinet. I made one of those to go under the work table where I do buffing. The plan is to make a similar one to hold the hones.

I'm guessing a small chair and tv would not fit in your shop?

Originally Posted by Neckbone

I'm guessing a small chair and tv would not fit in your shop?

When I'm not buffing, I roll the buffing cabinet into a closet and roll a chair up under the work table. That way, the work table can be used for pinning and other tasks.

There's a TV in the kitchen, but when I'm honing, mostly I'm looking at the hone. The TV is for the wife, when she's cooking.