Thread: Hone of the Day

One of mine on the hones today my Iwasaki, I noticed a little fall off in sharpness during the last shave with this razor, just of lately with my own razors I've taken to bypassing the linen component after using the 20K and going 50 suede 50 cordovan shell seems to offer me a slightly smoother sharper edge.

Dry nice jamie I will have to try that.

Got my wonderedge new scales since originals were cracked. Got it back today, set the bevel on 1k and then this fast coticule after. Finished on a small thuri bout for the first edge.

Originally Posted by Christian1

Got my wonderedge new scales since originals were cracked. Got it back today, set the bevel on 1k and then this fast coticule after. Finished on a small thuri bout for the first edge.

That is a handsome looking razor ; )

Today was the 7/8 Penidow 204 on the Dalmore blue then finished on the 7 1/2"X3-4" Thuri bout from Peter. Love the realestate on that Thuri. The Penidow is a fine shaver! One of my favorites. My mom found it for me, Only razor I did not buy myself. Very easy to hone.

Did a quick little touch of on one of my Tim Zowada customs today.
I opted for a barber hone this time, and nothing beats the Norton barber hone for that

Originally Posted by celticcrusader

One of mine on the hones today my Iwasaki, I noticed a little fall off in sharpness during the last shave with this razor, just of lately with my own razors I've taken to bypassing the linen component after using the 20K and going 50 suede 50 cordovan shell seems to offer me a slightly smoother sharper edge.

I usually use linen after a shave to thoroughly clean any soap residue off the blade.

After a refresh, it's always suede followed by leather for me. I agree the suede seems to be one of the materials that if you buy into progressive stropping (like I do), the suede makes a significant difference in the when the edge finally meets the leather.

I've got about 4 razors that have to be refreshed, and after reading Birnando's post, going to give a Barber's Hone a try...be interesting to do a side by side.

Dear Honing-Friends,

In other thread I've mentioned that my Caschmiso has some rusting problems.

Today I've hand-repolisched the blade sides, unfortunateley not all spots could be removed as they are too deep and the razor blade is to thinn (before polishing it was 0.26mm, all other razors are not bellow 0.3mm).
In addition I wanted to try the suggestion from Geezer to use baking soda while honing to reduce/prevent rusting.

So after polishing the edge was destroyed, so I've set the bevel using Coticuly La Veignette with milky slurry.
Once set I went to Ohzuku + Yae-Botan > Meijiro > Tenjho
For finishing I've created some light-milky slurry with light green thuringian slurry stone on Zulu Grey

Done some dozens of x-strokes.
Once the razor started sticking to the stone I've added some very light soapy water to reduce the friction.
Done another couple of dizens x-strokes.

the HHT after Linen stropping on thinnest hair showed 1 HHT lower performance at the tip and the fore part of the razor (seems to be my honing-weakpoint).
Refreshed the thuri-slurry on Zulu and redone soem dozens of x-strokes focusing on the fore part of Caschmiso.

Linen --> consistent HHT 4-5 with thinnest hair --> Caschmiso is ready for shaving (probably on sunnday).

Some pics, taken with my mobile phone through the ocular of my "cheap"-microscop, magnification of 160x





P.S. The razor has generated no rust on the polished surface, but those tiny deep spots has turned dark after some honing (patina/rust). So unfortunately I could not totaly solve the issue.

Originally Posted by Philipp78

Dear Honing-Friends,

In other thread I've mentioned that my Caschmiso has some rusting problems.

Today I've hand-repolisched the blade sides, unfortunateley not all spots could be removed as they are too deep and the razor blade is to thinn (before polishing it was 0.26mm, all other razors are not bellow 0.3mm).
In addition I wanted to try the suggestion from Geezer to use baking soda while honing to reduce/prevent rusting.

So after polishing the edge was destroyed, so I've set the bevel using Coticuly La Veignette with milky slurry.
Once set I went to Ohzuku + Yae-Botan > Meijiro > Tenjho
For finishing I've created some light-milky slurry with light green thuringian slurry stone on Zulu Grey

Done some dozens of x-strokes.
Once the razor started sticking to the stone I've added some very light soapy water to reduce the friction.
Done another couple of dizens x-strokes.

the HHT after Linen stropping on thinnest hair showed 1 HHT lower performance at the tip and the fore part of the razor (seems to be my honing-weakpoint).
Refreshed the thuri-slurry on Zulu and redone soem dozens of x-strokes focusing on the fore part of Caschmiso.

Linen --> consistent HHT 4-5 with thinnest hair --> Caschmiso is ready for shaving (probably on sunnday).

Some pics, taken with my mobile phone through the ocular of my "cheap"-microscop, magnification of 160x





P.S. The razor has generated no rust on the polished surface, but those tiny deep spots has turned dark after some honing (patina/rust). So unfortunately I could not totaly solve the issue.

Wow! those striations look particularly bad in my opinion, I wouldn't be happy if I saw those off a 1K never mind a finishing hone.
PS this is one of my edges off a 12K hone at 300 x magnification.

Actually I don’t have any synthetic hone above 3k level, which as far as I know able to produce mirror finish.
So never seen anything else that those scratched bevels in my microscope, excepting the jnat haze pattern (still some kind of scratches).
The only stone produces much better looking bevel is my red- agate (carneol) which gives a terrible-harsh shave.

But maybe its my poor stroke-technics...

Anyway I've learned that those scratches not directly tell something about the shave quality (the „Coticule“ effect).

Currently I do lots of pictures while honing on different stones and will share the results sone time.

Regards
Philipp

P.S. have you tried to change the light angle?
In different angle the same edge looks like this: