Thread: Hone of the Day

First time I've successfully honed with this combination. The Lorraine always feels so nice, both slurried and just wet, while the yet-to-be-identified "green slate" can be quite unforgiving. Looks fine and then it starts chipping. Seems the Red Imp had its number and made for a very sharp and smooth edge. Not coticule mellow, but had a face feel closer to a JNat - no going over bumps, just clean through them. Still amazed with how close it got with the test shave.

6 in today 1 Dovo 2 TI's 1 Revisor and 2 old Sheffields all in for honing plus 2 them for a new set of scales as well.

Originally Posted by celticcrusader

6 in today 1 Dovo 2 TI's 1 Revisor and 2 old Sheffields all in for honing plus 2 them for a new set of scales as well.

Nice set-up!

How often does the mortar and pestle come into play to help reset them bevels?

Originally Posted by stillshunter

Nice set-up!

How often does the mortar and pestle come into play to help reset them bevels?

Its for regrinds. and chip removal

Touched up a Tanifuji BaBa Swedish steel on the karasu with tomo only. The stone base is a 1x4x6" rubber jeweler's block, perfect for adding a little height and holding a stone in place when you don't want to drag out the stone holder or like this one, the stone is too short. And it smells like a tire so you can have that new tire feeling while honing!

Cheers, Steve

Are you strictly a synthetic guy Jamie or do you mess with naturals?

Originally Posted by Straightrazor72

Are you strictly a synthetic guy Jamie or do you mess with naturals?

I hone very many razors on average about 10 or 12 every week on a good week up to 20, I don't have the time or desire to mix naturals into my tried and tested progression of my synthetic lineup mostly Chosera with a Naniwa Snow White 8K and a Naniwa super stone 12K and finally a 20K Suehiro Gokumyo, 98% of what needs to be done happens on the 1K stone once you've mastered that stone the next level of refinement 3K, 5K, 8K, 12K, 20 is a very simple proccess, whenever I have a newbie around for a honing lesson I will spend most of our time talking about and using that 1K stone everthing else will eventually fall into place.

I didn't realize you honed so many razors each week for other people. That makes complete sense then that you'd go with a synthetic progression so that you're results are consistent. I know that when I started honing the people that were guiding me were constantly drumming into me the importance of a good bevel set before moving on to other stones. That's the best advice you can get when you are learning to hone. If the bevel is not set properly and you move up in stones you are wasting your time.