Thread: Hone of the Day

This SSA will be my September razor. A lightly killed edge, dilucot on thin slurry to clear water on my coticule, then finished 100+ laps on the Vermio with Proraso lather. Always look forward to this one coming up in rotation.

Honed up my first Bartmann today. An 89 Extra Manganese Steel.
Set the bevel on the Chosera 1K.
On to a modern La Viennette coticule for dilucot from a milky slurry down to clear water.
Finished it off on my first go around with a vintage Fine Rock Quarries 4x2 coticule
Shave test will come Monday morning, but the way it's cutting arm hair and passing HHT is promising

Here is the Friede razor picked up off SRP BST from mainaman. Thank you sir, nice. I had the opportunity to hone one of these some time ago and remembered the edge. Expose fresh steel on NOS blade. 1 layer of tape at 600 and 1000.




Proceed through natural stone progression, no tape. Several stones were used prior to reach the level for this vintage j-nat barber hone.


Edge had been pushed to maximum limit with final finish w/ vintage oil and stone. Test shave pending. Mike

Camping on Little Tupper Lake in NY this week. Step one.. sharpen the axe.
Got these old Nortons for a song last year.

OK, back to razors.

Did a T.I Spartacus for my brother.

Tricky bevel set but boy did I nail it...

It has a world class edge on it now .

(check out my beautiful new Tomo, it gives a blue slurry)

Originally Posted by JOB15

Did a T.I Spartacus for my brother.

Tricky bevel set but boy did I nail it...

It has a world class edge on it now .

(check out my beautiful new Tomo, it gives a blue slurry)

Nice, the tomo I have for oozuku (page or two before this) is white with renge and the slurry from it is a light pink color for some reason but very nice

Got this Japanese stone to test, so I refinished the Kamijo on it. I found it very interesting, as it is part of a razor set of 3 Orihi kamisori. Vintage stone, very clean, kinda narrow (like 1" wide I guess), but I really liked everything about it. Off to shave test it!

Originally Posted by Christian1

Nice, the tomo I have for oozuku (page or two before this) is white with renge and the slurry from it is a light pink color for some reason but very nice

Renge is usually some shade of purple, that's why you're getting pink slurry. Love those, by the way.

Got this Dovo model 41 stainless steel in yesterday. The seller claimed it was never used which I can believe. The edge did not look too bad at all but nothing I would shave with on inspection with a loupe. Appeared to need very little to bring it up to snuff. Put it on a Naniwa 12K with some slurry and finished with plain water, did 20 laps on a crox sprayed hard felt hanging strop and then 40 on English linen and 100 on Shell Cordovan leather. The test 2 pass shave was satisfying.

For this mornings shave it got another 10 laps on the crox sprayed strop and the 40/100 on the regular strop. Got a lovely 4 pass irritation free shave out of the deal. Smooth and close, no complaints.

Bob

These two stood out from the pack last night

So well behaved on the hones, perfect small even bevels gotta love it

Chosera 1-5-10 Blue/Green Escher finish with misty slurry




Hone on Gents !!!