Thread: Hone of the Day

Razor: Friedrich Schmitz Solingen 4/8 (I guess, not meassured but it's smaller than 5/8)

The Stones from top to bottom:
1. Synthetic King 1000: bevel setting. Checked if the bevel is set by cutting into the skin of the blueberry
2. left: a darker version of my natural cretan hones. I using this boy with water creating slurry with another cretan hone (the light grey right to it); removes the 1000-scratches like nothing
3. After refinement of the edge I've jointed it on the small piece of charnley forest gnext to the blueberry) by drawing the razor edge with feather light pressure on it. I believe that doing so I remove some "toothes" eventually lieved by 1000-King. Once done - back to the cretan hone and worked the edge back. Again - easy job, just love this hone
4. Unknown black-brown hone (I gues its a kind of quartzite or something...). This guy is doing incredible job on polishing the edge, but only with edge-trailing strokes (one edge leadig stroke ruins the edge apex, guess it has large but flat crystals). I use this stone in iterating cycles with the Finisher (more on this below).
5. Coticule La Dressante.

When i am done with cretan hone, the edge passes HHT3 to HHT4 on my medium thick hair.

Finishing procedure:
I do 3 iterations with stones 4. and 5. involved.
Each iteration begins with set of 50 back X-strokes on the unknown black-brown hone, the first and second time - with slurry (created by diamond plate), the last time on plain water. Doing back-strokes I hope to refine the edge and to reduce its possible "micro-toothiness". Following by edge leading 40 to 50 X-strokes on La-Dressante (unter running water). In case my back-strokes have created any foil edge, it is removed by Coti. Then strop the razor (20 strokes) on Linen and check HHT.

After the third iteration the edge should pass HHT4 on the thinnest hair i have (have several bunches of different hairs from different people).
Then I repeat stropping on Linen for another 50-60 strokes and strop on plain leather also around 50-60 times.

When done the edge passes HHT5 with flying colors on the thinnest hair i have.

happy honing!

Philipp

Two stone honing, today.
Wanted to try this for some time, finally got the time to do it while suckin down a few cups of Joe this morning.

Bevel set on Washita w/ water. Then progressed with soap n water, water/glycerin, pure glycerin. Edge now nearing 8k, and moved to unburnished, black Ark, water to water n soap, then flipped to the burnished side with water n soap.



Stroped out, test shave was excellent. Very comfortable.

Mike you’re killin’ me! Can you post a better image of that razor’s nose? And tang stamps just for good measure. I have a reason for asking....

I think that a thread on 2-stone honing would be good, bevel setter plus whatever. Might be fun.

You can do 1-stone honing but it’s not practical in most cases.

Originally Posted by Steve56

Mike you’re killin’ me! Can you post a better image of that razor’s nose? And tang stamps just for good measure. I have a reason for asking....

I think that a thread on 2-stone honing would be good, bevel setter plus whatever. Might be fun.

You can do 1-stone honing but it’s not practical in most cases.

Sure.....

It has a shallow barbers notch, spanning 2/3 rds. the width of the toe.




It was done, to show the versatility of a Washita.

Originally Posted by Steve56

Mike you’re killin’ me! Can you post a better image of that razor’s nose? And tang stamps just for good measure. I have a reason for asking....

I think that a thread on 2-stone honing would be good, bevel setter plus whatever. Might be fun.

You can do 1-stone honing but it’s not practical in most cases.

+1. That is what I do most of the time. Especially with a true Washita since you can set a bevel with it and continue to a mid range edge. One more stone to finish and BOOM BABY. Done in minutes, not hours as some would suggest or suspect.

Not that I mind honing for a long time I just don’t need to most times.

Mike, sorry for the tardy reply, the reason that I was curious about the nose is that I have a TI hook nose Spartacus that I had never seen that exact nose shape before, at least not quite the same and your razor looked like it might have the same shape. I’ve seen lots of rounded shapes like a Spanish point but not so much a sharper ‘V’ shape.

Now a couple of weeks ago, I acquired this 5/8 F. A. Koch Faultless, with a hook nose. It dates from the late 1800s, F. A. Koch was a NY importer who began around 1874 I think, and this razor is in black horn scales, and no country of origin. The font also looks older than later Koch razors. The red Sharpie is from checking the spine and bevel.

So apparently the hook nose has been around a while.

Originally Posted by Steve56

Mike, sorry for the tardy reply, the reason that I was curious about the nose is that I have a TI hook nose Spartacus that I had never seen that exact nose shape before, at least not quite the same and your razor looked like it might have the same shape. I’ve seen lots of rounded shapes like a Spanish point but not so much a sharper ‘V’ shape.

Now a couple of weeks ago, I acquired this 5/8 F. A. Koch Faultless, with a hook nose. It dates from the late 1800s, F. A. Koch was a NY importer who began around 1874 I think, and this razor is in black horn scales, and no country of origin. The font also looks older than later Koch razors. The red Sharpie is from checking the spine and bevel.

So apparently the hook nose has been around a while.

Boker made one, too.

So did Thiers-Issard. They called it a Dreadnought.

TI likes that nose shape, it is something different. Nice looking Dreadnought!

I’d forgotten about those Bokers Mike, they’re about the same vintage give or take a decade, so maybe it was a popular shape in the late 1800s early 1900s?

As anything else, gotta match the competition, and one step more.