Thread: Hone of the Day

I recently purchased this Sheaf Works- W. Greaves razor for about $13 and restored it and honed it. I set the bevel on a Washita stone and then went to a soft Arkansas for about 60 strokes. I jumped straight to my Surgical Black and progressed from plain water to ballistol oil (similar but backwards to using mud) and finished off with a couple hundred X strokes.

I just shaved and it was a remarkable shave. Wonderful steel.

that is a nice hunk of rock,,,,where did you get that? TC

WB Celebrated Hollow Ground. Start to finish. DMT bbw coticule Arkansas.

Originally Posted by tcrideshd

that is a nice hunk of rock,,,,where did you get that? TC

Thanks TC. I got it special order from Dan's Whetstone. Their production manager kept an eye out and after a few tries he came across this one. It came flat and has enough real estate to get a bit of a work out while hand honing :-).

Glamour shot of Vintage Red Imp finished on Y/G Thuri.
MIke

Originally Posted by MODINE

Glamour shot of Vintage Red Imp finished on Y/G Thuri.
MIke

Nice...been taking quite a few razors to the Y/G Escher Barber's Delight, getting the feel for it, Peter found me a perfect Barber's Delight two sides slurry stone, arrived from Germany last week.

What's your routine using the Y/G to finish / refresh a razor...would very much appreciate the info.

Thanks

Last week I did my 7/8ths W&B, 1/5/10k Chosera / 16k Shapton / Blue Green Escher.

Shaved the other day off it and it was amazing . Baby smooth , one handed fools pass, everything was perfect .
However I know a full progression on my Nakayama can top that.

Today I killed edge (I'm evil) , set the bevel on the 1k and did the full progression finishing with a Tomo which is the hardest rock on earth.
Get it anywhere near the Nakayama and it will scratch it.
So I use a DMT card and it takes some time to get a weak slurry from it and transfer it to my Nakayama.

The end result is special , it cuts any tree top hair on my leg that comes into contact with it..
Roll on Tue/Wed when I can shave with it

Brought this one back into service yesterday with a quick clean up, and a set of used scales. Then a skip across the 1000 Chosera, some time on a Washita, finishing on a Coti.

From there it went to a Cr/ox pasted strop for 20 passes, leaded linen, Red Latigo, Bridle, and finished w/100 on Roo.

Took a single WTG pass for a test shave, no prep just wet, lather, and test.
Very smooth I may add, but a full shave is needed, morning shall hold the truth, but being a Boker, I'll need not.[emoji56]

The hone gods have smiled on me lately, and over the course of three days I found these hones locally, and dirt cheap. In each case I didn't know exactly what I had until I brought them home and cleaned them up. The coticule and the thuringian I bought as part of a box of dirty hones out of someone's garage and the Tam-O-Shanter and Water of Ayr I found at an antiques market two days later just sitting together in a coffee can on one of the tables.


I just got the chance to try them out tonight on a Wade & Butcher that had been tugging lately. I lightly killed the edge and set a new bevel on the coti with slurry, diluting as I progressed. I could tell that the coticule is going to be an excellent finisher and was tempted to go the distance. This one feels really great!

But before I went to far on the coti I switched to the Tam with straight water. It was my first time using a Tam-o-Shanter. I found that I either needed to go a little further on the coti with slurry, or slurry the Tam, so I slurried the Tam for a while then diluted.

Then I tried out the Water of Ayr (first time for this type of hone too). I instantly fell in love with the silky feedback. I stayed on that for a while and I could have had a wonderful shave finishing there I think. But I wanted to bring the thuri into it so I spent a little while on that stone with a very light slurry, then clear.

I couldn't wait until the morning so I just had a go with it and am very pleased! A nice comfortable, close shave without irritation, a great feel to the edge. I will do more experiments with these hones in the coming days. I want to feel the shave off the coticule (what a terrific feel this one has!) and also straight off the Water of Ayr. Happy honing, gentlemen!

Originally Posted by xiaotuzi

The hone gods have smiled on me lately, and over the course of three days I found these hones locally, and dirt cheap. In each case I didn't know exactly what I had until I brought them home and cleaned them up. The coticule and the thuringian I bought as part of a box of dirty hones out of someone's garage and the Tam-O-Shanter and Water of Ayr I found at an antiques market two days later just sitting together in a coffee can on one of the tables.


I just got the chance to try them out tonight on a Wade & Butcher that had been tugging lately. I lightly killed the edge and set a new bevel on the coti with slurry, diluting as I progressed. I could tell that the coticule is going to be an excellent finisher and was tempted to go the distance. This one feels really great!

But before I went to far on the coti I switched to the Tam with straight water. It was my first time using a Tam-o-Shanter. I found that I either needed to go a little further on the coti with slurry, or slurry the Tam, so I slurried the Tam for a while then diluted.

Then I tried out the Water of Ayr (first time for this type of hone too). I instantly fell in love with the silky feedback. I stayed on that for a while and I could have had a wonderful shave finishing there I think. But I wanted to bring the thuri into it so I spent a little while on that stone with a very light slurry, then clear.

I couldn't wait until the morning so I just had a go with it and am very pleased! A nice comfortable, close shave without irritation, a great feel to the edge. I will do more experiments with these hones in the coming days. I want to feel the shave off the coticule (what a terrific feel this one has!) and also straight off the Water of Ayr. Happy honing, gentlemen!

Made my mouth water