Thread: Hone of the Day

Originally Posted by bluesman7

Today I needed a hair cut. My wife normally cuts it, but she is out of town. I took the opportunity to hone our hollow ground hair cutting shears as demonstrated at Howard Clark's razor meet by Ozark Edger [Shawn] a couple of years back. Hollow ground shears are much like honing razors it turns out. Finished on a Nani 8k, then took the shears to Great Clips and had the stylist use my shears so that I could get professional feedback on how I did. She was very impressed and told the other stylist who was there how sharp they were. She used mine for most of the haircut then switched back to her $350 shears with swivel thumb hole.

NOW I know who to send my CMon shears to! (A bit dull!)

To-day I am about to check some nice old hardware variety razors for possible letter-opener wear!

A Winchester and a German from Balke, Suerth & Co of NYC on the 1K Chosera.

Originally Posted by sharptonn

To-day I am about to check some nice old hardware variety razors for possible letter-opener wear!
A Winchester ...snip...

Hey the Winchester, if usable, is a good shaver and should go to a gun lover!!
JMO.
~Richard

Originally Posted by Geezer

Hey the Winchester, if usable, is a good shaver and should go to a gun lover!!
JMO.
~Richard

Agreed, Richard....Do you know when these were sold?

OH! Wiki says Winchester teamed-up with Simmons Hardware in the 20's to sell products with the Winchester name upon them.
Seems they called it off in 1929. Pretty old!

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Agreed, Richard....Do you know when these were sold?

OH! Wiki says Winchester teamed-up with Simmons Hardware in the 20's to sell products with the Winchester name upon them.
Seems they called it off in 1929. Pretty old!

Thanks for sharing that information. Among my stash I have two Winchesters. I always like knowing when what I have was made which isn't always easy to find out.

Originally Posted by Learner

Thanks for sharing that information. Among my stash I have two Winchesters. I always like knowing when what I have was made which isn't always easy to find out.

Yes..I have begun to inquire about pre-war. So many things were done!

Lewis and Hess on the hones today...both finished 3-2-1 on the SG20k after progressing through the Chosera 1k and Super Stones.

7/8 wostenholm IXL. 1k, 3k bevel set. okudo, ogura mid. oozuku tomo on narutaki finish.
nice, smooth shave.

Heljestrand frameback finished on a La Grise Coticule under running water, very sharp and very smooth edge

Very nice looking stone there Tristan. I have a La Grise as well; a bit thinner, same color and texture. I like mine a lot. And, like you, I enjoy the results of its use.