aj slate hones

[dmnc]

Question for people who use these hones. Am getting good results using slurry stones to remove polish then honing with light slurry diluting down quite quickly, small hones so slurry falls off quite quickly. Am adding bit of shave soap to mug of water I dip blade in. As said, I think good results but should I be slurrying again or does this seem like areasonable method? Am quite new to this so feel free to point out anything obvious am missing. Cheers.

[Geezer]

They are all different.. The question is "Are you getting good shaving edges?" if so, you got that stone down pat!
~Richard

[Hirlau]

Like Geezer said, "Are you getting good shaving edges?" that is all that matters.

[dmnc]

Good. But am sure could get better. Still newish and every time I hone the edges get better.

[RusenBG]

Keep honing , more and more , yeah .

[Magpie]

There was a whole thread about using those slates. If you search it out, you will find lots of input on using them

[rickboone]

Just my opinion but that progression is a bit overkill and could easily lead to missing something....

[dmnc]

Missing something like what? Am still new to this and thought that smaller jumps should be easier to get a good hone with. What would you leave out?

[PhatMan]

dmnc,

FYI - you can get GT85 from Halfords (probably in the bicycle section).

I have just got the AJ 'tri-hone' pack, and am currently flattening them - the '12k' LM is certainly harder than the '8k DT' and the '15k LM', and my well worn 325 'grit' DMT8C is having a bit of a time of it !

I have got a 220/325 'grit' Duosharp plate coming, so that should speed things up

Have fun

Best regards

Russ

[rickboone]

Where is situa you have like 3 different finishers that you are going through. If you were to say just use the coticule and maximize it then I believe your edges would satisfy you a little bit better. Probably what I would do is do the 1000, 3000 and then go to the coticule with slurry. Then finish on plain water.
For me it's kind of like once you are on a finisher it's finished. So there's no need to have 3 different finishers. I'm not saying to get rid of anything just you don't need all of them for every razor. Let them be other options. I like barbecue and I like ice cream but they don't go good together not on the same plate. Or perhaps a 1k, 3k, bbw, coti.
What I meant about what you are missing is your missing the edge. It wasn't ready before you moved on to the next stone. That could have been as far back as the bevel which is very likely that you missed it and if you missed it then nothing else is really going to hit right. So you keep piling on stones trying to fix something when it may just need a little more time at a previous stone.
And 8000 great stone may prove to be very beneficial for you. 1 / 3 / 8 / any of these 1 finishers that you have. But only 1. Yes that puts the b_b_w kind of on the back burner for now. Some people do use them for finishers some use as finisher some use a pre finisher.