Thread: Hone of the Day

Originally Posted by MikeB52

Modine, where's that canadian oil stone from? Would like to have a local made mid grade stone in my kit.
Cheers.
Nice stones, and imp

Thank you sir. Red IMPs can be great shavers. The razors are not mine. The Canadian oil stone was purchased in an antique / book store when I was in Hamilton, Ont some years back. The small sword sharpening stone (same material) was from an estate sale in New England. Notice the Fleur de lis box.
Mike

It's NOT butter.

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Some pics from last week

This C-MON Filarmonica was so sweet after a bevel reset to even up the edge on the Chosera 1k



Finished it up on the Nakayama using one of the softest Naguras I have IIRC the name was spelled **Akupisa** or close to that




So smooth on the face, yet wicked keen


Hone On !!!!

Probably akepin, that's a shallower, softer stratum.

Cheers, Steve

Restored Otto, Could not find the right feel from multiple great hones.
Zulu on the 1200grit polished side water only did the trick.

Nice Otto! And a fine filly too. Couple of beautiful razors there.

The more I use, and compare the results from my ZG to other finishers, the more I am impressed by this African stone...

I have this barber hone since i began straight razor shaving .It was given to me by the old barber that worked in Bulgarian comunistic time barber shop . This barber hone is unmarked and it was state suply for the national barbershops during the comusm and the cold war . I guess is made in Russia , Bulgaria or Chechoslovakia .
Im almost shure it is Rusian
Hard as hell and dark as the night , it has some shiny flakes in it . It seems gritty enought for a midle grit prefinisher , since recently i decide to lapp and conditioned it
lapped and conditioned on a floor bathroom ceramic taile with a coticule slurry and CROX on powder and 4 long hours of rubing aainst the diferent sluries
Fast as Ferrary and after joining or killing the edge 20 strokes on plain watter and 10 more on latther gave me an amazing ultra fine and comfortable shaving edge
Absolute comparable to my Thurys or fine finishers
I literaly cannot believe how this hone mutates after 4 hours of reconditioning It became awsome - definetly a Keeper
Next to the second razor i try it on- NOS japanese 22 mm blade kOKUSAIBUNKA
Enjoy guys

Just finished these four up. The one with the owl on the scales is a Wester Brothers "Be Wise". Now I'm a pretty big nerd for Wester Brothers razors and I decided to try out my Wester Bros. barber hone after the 12k. This thing felt GRITTY AS HELL. I took a peek under the loupe and it looked like it just came off of a 4K. It was really surprising because every one of their razors that I've handled has been really well made. I'll give it a test shave but I'm pretty sure it'll be going back to the 8k & 12k after I'm done.