Thread: Hone of the Day

I was testing a jnat that seems so far to be a prefinisher, shave could have been smoother. So I decided to finish the test razor on this koppa. Class A razor finisher. It has that perfect for me hardness, hard but not too hard, nice feedback, finish on thin slurry and get a perfect 3 pass shave. There was a remnant of a Hatanaka stamp on the face of the stone that is still sort of visible despite 400 Atoma lapping and using a 1200 Atoma to raise slurry for testing. Don't know if the stamp is real or not (it wasn't mentioned by the seller and the price wasn't a hatanaka price) but I do know that this little rock delivers.

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Nice rock!
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Sometime after this Covid-19 stuff is over with ( vaccine first) I would like to get together with you and compare Jnats.

Refreshed the edges to treetopping again. I'll see how they shave in the next couple of days.

Originally Posted by randydance062449

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Nice rock!
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Sometime after this Covid-19 stuff is over with ( vaccine first) I would like to get together with you and compare Jnats.

Thank you Randy.
Yeah once we have a vaccine we have to get together. It will be fun.

Shusui on the top and Koyei on the bottom.
Nakayama Mizu Asagi is the bench stone. To the right is an interesting double sided Takashima that’s Karasu on one side and nearly Kiita on the other. Today it served as a slurry donor. All the rest are unknown and hard-very hard+.

All finishing work today, continuing refinement and polishing of the bevels while experimenting with the tomos pictured here. They’re all in the same neighborhood and a couple could be interchangeable for these 2 razors at least.

The work went smoothly and I’m pleased with the results. We will see how they shave in the next few days.

Originally Posted by alex1921

Thank you Randy.
Yeah once we have a vaccine we have to get together. It will be fun.

Hey, I want to play with old rocks too! I’d do a road trip for this in a heart-beat.

This is somewhat of a personal sacrifice considering I would have to endure some uneventful mileage/scenery through eastern MT and ND to get to MN.

Touching up a Friodur 17 by borrowing Steve56’s suggested method of employing a ‘fast kiita’ with DN slurry then moving over to a finisher and using a light tomo slurry. This kiita barber hone and wonderful ozuku kan mokume teamed up nicely for this morning’s honing session:

Originally Posted by Speedster

Hey, I want to play with old rocks too! I’d do a road trip for this in a heart-beat.

This is somewhat of a personal sacrifice considering I would have to endure some uneventful mileage/scenery through eastern MT and ND to get to MN.

I actually found some of the scenery quite interesting. Especially when I was approaching Benz's home town---For miles I could see 'something big' on a hillside. It turned out to be this. I took this pic from a gas station at the edge of town.



I would later find out that the town's sports mascot was the 'Holsteins'.

Originally Posted by cudarunner

I actually found some of the scenery quite interesting. Especially when I was approaching Benz's home town---For miles I could see 'something big' on a hillside. It turned out to be this. I took this pic from a gas station at the edge of town.



I would later find out that the town's sports mascot was the 'Holsteins'.

Kinda like looking at the signs for Wall Drug 80 miles before you get there.

Originally Posted by randydance062449

Kinda like looking at the signs for Wall Drug 80 miles before you get there.

Or Ruby Falls/Rock City in Tennessee in the old days.