Thread: Hone of the Day

In honor of being off on Election Day, I did my civic duty by voting, and then by honing! Ever now and then I like to test my chops on the fundamentals by really tweaking an edge for all it's worth on a lower-grit hone, such as the Chosera 1k or my old standby Norton 4k, and then shaving. If I do everything right, I can usually get a pretty good shave even on the 1k. Today I finished the Ator I finished the rescale on yesterday on my Norton 8k; we'll see how it shaves, but it was tree-topping fine leg hairs pretty well, so I have high hopes!

Can’t get over how pretty that razor is. It captures the feeling of sea glass and belongs by the ocean.

The full Monte on some nice ones in the Movember Auctions.
Check them out and BID!
https://straightrazorpalace.com/move...nife-hone.html
https://straightrazorpalace.com/move...or-extras.html

Honed a lot of razors this week....Figure to top it off with something relatively easy this evening.
2 F. Herders which have seen neither a whisker, nor a hone. A#16 and a #17.
Going from 1k Naniwa.

Originally Posted by sharptonn

The full Monte on some nice ones in the Movember Auctions.
Check them out and BID!
https://straightrazorpalace.com/move...nife-hone.html
https://straightrazorpalace.com/move...or-extras.html

What hone is the white and tan one? A well loved Norton 4/8?

Honed this one up for MikeT, after a restore.
Bevel set on the green brick, took a few hours to get past the chips n pits to reach a clean edge.

Move to a Washita, then a fast cutting, slurried, Thurigan.
And finishing on a B/G Escher, slurry to clean water.

Originally Posted by jfk742

What hone is the white and tan one? A well loved Norton 4/8?

Yep! There's the midrange!

Just out of curiosity and because I’d like a guess-timate of how long my Norton 4/8 will last, how long have you had that stone?

I’d bet a life time assuming you’re not doing it for a side hustle or a living. I had one years ago that I used for wood working. Probably lapped it 3-4 times a week for a few years. Showed little wear, no where close to how sharptons looks. I dropped it one day and that was that. I assume I would still be using had I not. Moved away from water stones and onto pastes and diamond hones for ww stuff.

I have had it for roughly 12-13 years. It was fairly worn as I got it. Another guy wanted the individual 4 and 8 stones, so I got it gratis!
I recently bought an almost new one for down the road. I may never get to it. Only razors have been on it.
The fellow I got it from had honed tons of razors on it and so have I. It has always lived in the water. I lightly lap it after 4 razors or so...

Love that thing.........