Thread: Hone of the Day

Re-honed a nice little Hayashi Diamond Western kamisori and finished on a fine razor kiita. It's a tiny thing, about 11/16 with a 55mm edge and an almost perfect MAB razor. But as you might expect of Japanese steel, it can mow down a barb wire fence in short order.

Cheers, Steve

HONE OF THE DAY - HOTD

Wustof 13/16 round point
Tsushima Black nagura
Wakasa w/matching tomo

7/8ths Legreot.
1,5,8,12,20K Overkill I know.
Pretty Nakayama Iromono Kita, Asano Koma for more overkill.

What happens when you leave your 5K Chosera in the water. (family emergency)

Works fine. Lets talk in 20years. My hone for today.

Some days it's just a real pleasure to hone. Here is a 7 day set of Heljestrand 13/16+ framebacks in tortoise shell scales. As near to NOS as you will see. These razors still had their factory edge and no wear on the spines (backs). I added a layer of tape to protect them. Finished on a Suehiro Gokumyo 20K. They took an amazing edge.

Well well well... That's not soo ugly....

Here are some interesting ones from the last couple of days :P


Bad Packaging



Fixed & Honed

Chosera 1-5-10 Zulu Grey




Chippy Kropp



Honed - Same as above



Chippy DD



Honed Chosera 1-5-10 Blue/Green Escher




Happy Derby Day - Go "Gun Runner"


Hone on Gents !!!!

Originally Posted by karlej

Some days it's just a real pleasure to hone. Here is a 7 day set of Heljestrand 13/16+ framebacks in tortoise shell scales. As near to NOS as you will see. These razors still had their factory edge and no wear on the spines (backs). I added a layer of tape to protect them. Finished on a Suehiro Gokumyo 20K. They took an amazing edge.

Some days are diamonds. Some days are stones!

@gssixgun - I like the looks of that Kropp and Dubl Duck!

This mornings honing session.. This razor was popping hairs off the shelf but i needed to clean the edge up.

When i looked at the DePew this morning for the first time under the loupe, 60x showed some small chips and what looked exactly like a faucet ding going about a 3rd of the way into the bevel right under the second 'e'. Well the rest of the edge cleaned up very quick but i spent a good amount of time and 3 tape changes getting that ding out of there. I spent maybe 1 hour on the Chosera, took two cups of coffee.

I usually start with slurry on the Chosera and dilute every 25 laps or so. I read about that here a few weeks back (outback??).. it works for me. I do the same on the 4k.. but then just use water on the 8 and 12.

After the ding was gone this thing was doing what god intended for it to do.. remove hair from skin in a very efficient manner. Ive abandoned the TPT and just shave a little thigh with the entire length of the blade to check my bevel. That TPT fooled me a few times. Fool me twice..

Off the stones i stropped 50 on linen, 100 on bridle.. then 20 laps on Crox, 20 laps on Feox, then another 50 on linen, 100 on bridle.. 30 palm strops and i was off. Had a little redness on the neck but it was gone in about 20 minutes. The head shave was nice. No irritation at all. During the week i put an extending mirror behind me in the razor den. If i angle it just right i can see the back of both sides of my head in the main mirror, combined with a folding mirror on the right of the sink that i can angle.

Its like a shaving funhouse.

I dont usually post honing porn but slurry and swarf on a 4k is such a beautiful sight.



Its good to be back.