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Thread: Suehiro Gokomyu 20K Waterstone
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12-01-2014, 01:00 AM #14
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Thanked: 458I had two koppa that were $70 that did a great job honing a razor, and a vintage japanese barber hone that was $165. If you were a professional, then honing with a gok makes maybe even more sense than an amateur, because you don't want to be puzzling over why an edge isn't as good as you want on a natural stone when you've got a stack of ten more razors to do and somewhere to go in a couple of hours.
The one thing that's a little nutty about folks who just get into honing is the assumption that it's something you do regularly. As a shaver and not a razor refinisher, it's something you do very very infrequently, and very little of it in those infrequent times. If you have a good linen (non abrasive), that may mean every six months if you use one razor, and you'll give up nothing in sharpness along the way.
The real advantage of the gok isn't that it saves you money over any other stone, it's that it's easy to use.