Thread: Hone of the Day

Today's hone of the day is a pretty common one for me. Same old keen kutter with brutal spine wear. I used the coticule geezer sent me a while back. I'm learning it slowly. Not a fast coticule, but she sure is reliable. Set the bevel on some milky slurry. Diluted until I felt it was right and then added a layer of tape. The HHT off the stone was good.

A catch and pop but when I stropped the HHT didn't get that much better. Usually I'll go back and do some more water only but I didn't feel like it. It felt nice and grabby on the TPT and the strop. I test shaved tonight and was rewarded with a truly special coticule edge. Soft and after the shave it felt like I hadn't shaved at all. I'm glad I stopped where I did.

I learned a lot today..

Ps. I raise my slurry with a DMT with no issues

Very cool, Soldier!

On Sunday it seems one hone for the day is not enough. So I tried two. ����
A 'common' Belgian for the wosty and an Escher for the Anchor. Interesting how both can give a 'wow' edge during the shave. A two pass but one side of the face each, and the only difference I can tell is one side smells like a coti.

Edit: why SRP are the pics always upside down. ����

Nice, Frank. TBH, I think you must rotate them from your end before attaching them.
Smartphone pics come out sideways a lot.
Upside down? Rotate once again!

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Nice, Frank. TBH, I think you must rotate them from your end before attaching them.
Smartphone pics come out sideways a lot.
Upside down? Rotate once again!

Edhewitt and harrywally let me in on this. If you take your phone pictures with the button to the right. So landscape with the home button to the right your pictures come up the right way. try this to see if it helps.

One you don't hear much about, the South African Silkvein hone.
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different light angle showing some contrast in the stones features.
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w/ tan slurry
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Working on some Russian Stain less steel. Slow and effective for moving to final finisher stone in progression.... have fun.
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Mike

These are the four beautiful woman keeping me up late at night trying to figure them out. My obsession is starting to take a toll on other area of my life. Bags under my eyes and exhausted all the time but I am loving every minute of it. I stayed up late honing four razors with these. 3 from eBay and full bevel sets.

From left to right:

A "no name" stone stamped Washita. It replaced my labeled "Lily White" Washita as the no name is a serious metal hog compared to the lily white. Very fast.

A Soft Arkansas

A Hard Arkansas

A vintage Translucent Arkansas

Using magnification and every test I have calibrated to get a consistent system down. like I said, loving every minute of it.

Originally Posted by gssixgun

F Herder from the Monday Marathon hehehe

Chosera 1-5-10 Went with my nearly Black German Thuringen for the finish starting with a light slurry ...

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Been awhile since I have used this stone, really love the silky feel it has with slurry


Hone on Gentlemen

Glen,

Did you ever had a label on the Blackie? Is it a Faso labeled? Just curious

Originally Posted by Frameback

Glen,

Did you ever had a label on the Blackie? Is it a Faso labeled? Just curious

No Sir it is NOT a Faso I messed with one of those at a Yakima meet, they are a much "Harder" feeling hone then mine

Jnats gave me an online class. Here are the pics.



I wasnt sure how to start. I had been shaving factory edge for a year. Bevel set Chosera 1K, 5K
and then went to Nakayama Mizu Asagi Tomae. and then just boton slurry to dilution and got to scary sharp. Different than any other hones I have used.
Next day I killed another edge and tried it from boton,Tenjyou hard to get a slurry from that one, and lastly used mejiro.
Yes I had to refer to his notes to get all the terms correct. But I am learning.



So with this set up, bevel set to finish I didnt see striations. Is this normal for jnats?
It is sharper and I have been able to get with my Zulu or PHIG, keener may be a better term.
Jnats sent me hone crack with this set up and now I cant stop the madness.