Thread: Hone of the Day

From the East,a jnat,a couple razors and a strop from where?I sorta know where the stone and razors are from,but the strop?Chinese writing?Beats me...
Razors shave well.

The buckle at the top of the strop looks exactly like the one on my Japanese shell strop. Wonder of Naomi sold strops to the Chinese market.

Could be Korean?

Originally Posted by caccia

From the East,a jnat,a couple razors and a strop from where?I sorta know where the stone and razors are from,but the strop?Chinese writing?Beats me...
Razors shave well.

This one got me interested so I sent the pic to a friend of mine from who speaks Chinese. She said Chinese characters. It's the name of a cosmetology school, something like International culture and beauty school. Loose translation. According to her it's a pretty typical imprinting that you see on tools purchased from a vocational school.

This Trans Ark is my first/only natural hone.
It’s been fun learning to use it.
Recently the last two touch ups with it has been dry. With less laps than with lather.
Starting with a little pressure and ending with WOTB. So far the results are positive. Same nice edge with 1/3 the laps.
Why I decided to use it dry is because the feedback with a lubricant such as lather. Was nonexistent. With varying pressure and dry I can “feel” the stone working.
My $.02. Ken

Filli 14 finished on coticule, stropped on PJM strop and Feinster loom.

Had a problem getting this razor shave ready so put it away for awhile. Few days ago just took it to the coticule for few minutes before it felt like it was good. Excellent 2 pass shave this morning. Zero sting from the aftershave as well which is always nice.

Heljestrand MK 4

Electric Razor Newark N.J., Belgian hone and reindeer shell strop. Reindeer shell,for real?

Caccia, that's a nice looking stone there. How is it?

Originally Posted by Maryland998

This Trans Ark is my first/only natural hone.
It’s been fun learning to use it.
Recently the last two touch ups with it has been dry. With less laps than with lather.
Starting with a little pressure and ending with WOTB. So far the results are positive. Same nice edge with 1/3 the laps.
Why I decided to use it dry is because the feedback with a lubricant such as lather. Was nonexistent. With varying pressure and dry I can “feel” the stone working.
My $.02. Ken

That is a gorgeous trans ark, Ken! I like to start out dry on mine (yeah, the feedback is better), but if you go on to "ice the cake" so to speak with the same work on a lube such as WD-40 (since you're not feeling the lather), it takes the edge to an even keener/smoother level.

I haven't been able to over-cook an edge on my arks even with hundreds of circles, back and forths, x-strokes etc., even with considerable torque on the edge-it just seems to keep getting better.

Haven't had the stones out for a while. Chased the water wave up and down the coticule 150+ light, slow, laps. 50 laps on linen, 100 on leather. HHT 3, what I usually get. Shaved this morning so it'll be Wednesday before the final judgement is made.