Thread: Hone of the Day

That's called ...Faceterbating.

Originally Posted by Matt1222

Touched up a few blades on two different Eschers yesterday.

The Engels Trademark and the Beau Brummel 35 went into the y/g Barbers Gem

The Hans, Engels Special, and Bartmann 100 went on a Barbers Delight sized light green Escher. I’m going to do a bit of comparing to see how the edges differ.

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Beautiful Razors!!!!

wow I love those stones! if I may what type are they? the Coti a Salm??

Originally Posted by BeJay

I got this Henkels a few years ago in an eBay lot. I finally pulled it out and cleaned it up today. It was butter knife dull so I started with a DMT325. Then Chosera 1k and Nani SS 4-8-12 and finished on my Nakayama Kiita.

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Prettty Kiita!!!!!

Originally Posted by Steel

Pike/Norton No. 1 Quality Washita
Black Arkansas

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I love your Black Arki!!!!!!

I got this Thuri from my uncle and tried it on this Economy. I got the scope out and decided it wasn't meeting the bevel on one side.

Did the Norton 1000/4000/ 8000 progression and tried it again.

FBU on Shapton GS500, 1k, 2k (HR), 4k, 8k (HC), Wakasa Jnat with tomo slurry.

Love shaving with this fella', freaks me how something so old can be so good !

Honed up this Kropp 7/8ths today.

It needed some slight restoration .
Light rust on the spine and general mank.

I cleaned the scales with alcohol swabs and used 1200k glass paper on the blade , followed by Mass .
Also used some toothpaste in the tang pin area .

It does need some more attention but I don't have the time to strip it rite now and I want to test the edge.
Also the heel could do with a visit to the Dremel . The photo makes it look worse than it is .

One layer of tape left it with a tiny bevel.
1k then a full Nagura progression.

The edge seems as keen as keen gets. I have to wait until next weekend to test it though , drat

Originally Posted by alex1921

New stones. Unknown mine. The awasedo is very hard. Light green with clouding. The tomo has layers of yellow, green and some red.
5/8 Dovo went through 1,3,5 and 8K. Then DN slurry on the finishing stone followed by the tomo slurry. Finished on slurry without diluting. Nice and sharp with very comfy edge.

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nice stone and razor.....

very nice stone, how big is that? do you hand hone?