Thread: Hone of the Day

Thanks for the comment on the 8k glass HC. Anyone else have a comment about this? Just thinking about the future. Dam HAD!

BTW, ive read about the 10k stones crazing, but not the snow white.

Originally Posted by Eurofighter

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The edge is at about HHT3 and shaves my arm hairs easily.
Test shave tomorrow!

It was my best shave so far!
Very comfortable, almost CCS as it wasn't that close. The blade struggled on the third pass (a combination of XTG and ATG), but then again even some DE blades struggle there.
I think there is a chance that the edge can be improved even more.
It's amazing what difference that little loupe made!

That looks great! TBH, about all the magnification I personally care for.
Too much gets scary and complicated for me!

Spent some time today playing with nagura on a hindostan. So far it seems to leave a decent edge on the two razors I've tried it on. Definitely worth experimenting with more.

Three Japanese classics on the hones today, a little refresh for my shavers, all finished on the Suehiro Gokumyo 20K.

My honing this weekend.

Was cleaning up the shave den and decided to take a family picture.

Gave the ivory le grelot the jnat treatment tonight.

The Friodur 72 1/2 had a softer jnat edge so thought I could push it further. I started with DN slurry since I had to lap the stone and then finished on hard tomo slurry. We were talking about stiction on the other thread. This stone develops a distinct feeling of increased resistance but doesn't get skippy or over grabby. I would say almost perfect feeling for me. I kept honing and checking under the scope. At some point I was starting to develop small tiny teeth at 1000x. Stopped, stropped and they went away. Back too the stone for few laps and man the shave was so close.
Now the stone. Pretty hard asagi with a nice layer of kawa, the stone becomes black at that point.

Good looking and sized stone.