Thread: need help with honing!

Originally Posted by dmnc

Is it just me or is there a yellow side to that stone? Maybe wet pictures of both sides would help. May have a coti bbw combo. Excuse if wrong. Am also quite new to honing game.

its white and super course! like comparing the feel to 220 grit sand paper...

Originally Posted by mainaman

If I were you, I'd get a good 1k and forego the 3k. Of coarse I am basing my advise on the premise that you have a 6k hone, and that it is good enough to remove 1k scratch pattern.

would i be able to cut hairs if i didnt have the bevel set properly?

Then I'm very wrong. Best listen to people with more experience. All the best.

Originally Posted by dmnc

Then I'm very wrong. Best listen to people with more experience. All the best.

thank you, you too!

Originally Posted by dmnc

Is it just me or is there a yellow side to that stone? Maybe wet pictures of both sides would help. May have a coti bbw combo. Excuse if wrong. Am also quite new to honing game.

That's not a coticule. It's a two sided silicon carbide hone and is likely not a good choice for razors. In my opinion the finer side is the only one you should even consider using with a razor.

after about 500Xs on my "6K" it plucks hairs a few mm up from the base, sometimes right at the base without much tug at all. maybe a better rolling technique or 12k shapton cream will do it. i might just strop it 100 laps and see where that takes me.

If you have been honing for quite some time on a stone that was not flat you really really need to start with the coarse stone (at least the finer side of the silicon carbide stone) until you have a good even sharp bevel set all the way up and down the razor to the apex of the edge. This is basically the foundation of your entire edge, and if you don't get it right it will be almost impossible to rectify that with the finer stones. The silicon carbide stone may be too coarse to make a jump to 6k. You could really use a 2k JIS stone in the middle there, IMO.

Okay, progress has been made with 6k and i figured some things out! i pretty much eliminated my smile and gotten the blade sharp enough to shave, after about 700X strokes i could have no doubt benefited from something in the 3k range. The silicon carbide is far too coarse for anything besides taking out a chip. As for shaving, no tug but it does seem to irritate my skin and i no doubt need to hone with the 12k coming in. Thank you all for all the replies!

that syn is nowhere 6k it is more like 600 grit and will ruin a razor. it looks like the ones I've seen on ebay and if it is its 220 and 600 at best. you need 1k,4k 8k then finisher to properly hone a razor this is too much metal for a beginner.never use an unknown hone on a razor, I believe its 6k wont cut it. you have been warned.

Originally Posted by kn4wd

that syn is nowhere 6k it is more like 600 grit and will ruin a razor. it looks like the ones I've seen on ebay and if it is its 220 and 600 at best. you need 1k,4k 8k then finisher to properly hone a razor this is too much metal for a beginner.never use an unknown hone on a razor, I believe its 6k wont cut it. you have been warned.

Oh well, its a learning experience i know i wont be using the two sided silicon carbide hone. I use an unknown grey hone as shown in the first page of this thread and it gives a pretty decent shave after stropping (that's why I'm going with "I believe its a 6k"). I don't think I'm going to throw it away because i don't know what it is.