Thread: Hone of the Day

Originally Posted by outback

I just bought this today along with a Champion Barber's hone,

Congratulations, you have what is, in my opinion, the worst barber hone ever made!
I have tried 4 of them and they caused more destruction to an edge than any other barber hone I ever have tested. They look like a heterogeneous gravel nightmare under a microscope.

Originally Posted by Utopian

Congratulations, you have what is, in my opinion, the worst barber hone ever made!
I have tried 4 of them and they caused more destruction to an edge than any other barber hone I ever have tested. They look like a heterogeneous gravel nightmare under a microscope.

Har..!! Some day's your the bug..
Some day's your the windshield..
But hey! For only $5. It makes a nice piece of nostalgia in the shave den, if anything. [emoji6]

It's been a quite week only 3 in this week.

Ready, set...



Bevel..



Stropping time.

Did some work yesterday with the Zulu Grey on a Brian Brown 13/16 and Jerry Stark 7/8.

Takes a while to get the hang of a Zulu but it does develop a nice edge-sharp but not hyper, like what can happen with a j-nat or in some cases a high grit synthetic. It's kind of like an over-ambitious coticule....

It's good to see plenty of pictures here

This evening : Pradier, circa 1820,

Coticule, "Rouge du Salm" (same kind as Goldenfish), "Pierre de Lorraine", "Pierre du Sud-Ouest", two unknown stones given by an old seller of coticules, in Jodoigne, schwedenstein (and its strop in the back), finishing slate.

Thaeris, I like your style. With some guys recently asking about these, here are some lather catcher blades that were honed up. * * CAUTION * * There is much handling of wet blades.


1 layer of tape on blade holder, frog, bayonet. Bevel set like any blade. Blades are flipped in holder at each stage of progression to assure edge consistency.


Move to natural stone progression. Keep track of where you are on each blade in case you have stop.


Mid-level J-nat w/ fast and fine cutting strength. X-pattern passes at all stages.


Final finish on light green Barber thuri from Hatzicho. This is Swedish steel.


100 laps each on HIDESTOART horse hind strop. Shave test not possible, visual inspection only. You will have to ask Frameback how they shave.

Iwasaki tamahagane no. 1341.5 on special Artaunon quartzite whetstone.



The Artaunon does the whole thing - from bevel setting with heavy slurry till endfinishing with water, last few strokes on oil. Absolute fantastic shave!

Would you tell us more about the Artaunon stone Peter? Chasing the fantastic shave here.

Well the Artaunon stone is a very special quartzite, located in the German mountains called Taunus - hence the name (the name Artaunon appears in an old roman description of an ancient celtic city, so-called "Oppidum", which was nearby the quarry). The stones have been already used in older times as whetstones. But due to their hardness it is very difficult to cut an lap them. Hardness is around 7-7.5 according to Mohs, which is only little less than carborundum (9) or diamond (10). The stones consist of more than 80 % of very fine quartz particles that are embedded in the stone matrix like a sandstone. So it is not pure quartz but a so-called quartzitic sandstone.
With surry the stones are very fast. Slurry can only be raised effectively with a DMT. Diluting the slurry during progression, the edge gets shave ready within minutes. I love the edge these stone gives, very fine and sharp but also smooth. The edge gets even finer when the last strokes will be done with oil or you can get a very special "taste" of the edge, if you use a thuringian slurry stone to raise a thin thuri-slurry on the Artaunon for the last few strokes.