Thread: Hone of the Day

Been a while since I posted. Here is an oldy that ate my lunch for hours. About four+B
Hones: Chosera 1K, old barber's fast cutting Coticule, And the blue/ green? Thuringer that came with it. No tape.

Why? Well the old razor had a 1.5mm deep chip in the middle of the edge, and weak steel behind the ding. Almost there and then the edge would collapse at the ding. Why take the time...foolish, but I needed the practice... The spine on one side was a bit wonky also.


She does shave very well!

Enjoy your honing!
~Richard

It's been a while for me too, I've been traveling a bit, took the nieces to France for their graduation presents and bought three old razors at a flea market in Avignon, and one is a near new quite interesting 8/8 faux frameback actually made a few miles north of Avignon, likely in the 1800s.

This is a refresh of a Manaslu M-55 on a handheld Hatanaka iro razor koppa trying out a new nagura that has too many cracks unfortunately. Usually iro (multicolor) JNats are softer, especially the more strongly colored ones, but this one is a hard razor grade stone as the stamps would indicate. Alex Gilmore had a bench size hard iro similar to this 7-8 years ago I believe. Results were quite good both with diamond and this tomo, but I think I need to identify a perfect tomo nagura for it. But that's part of the fun!

Cheers, Steve

Beautiful color stone Steve, awesome. Here's an old Tom Turner re-scaled finished on "unknown" J-nat.


No stamp, pretty tree ring pattern. With slurry.


Easy to use finisher for razors, regardless of what mine it came from.

MIke

Ok I am back as well. Chosera 1,5,8K then MK got the Phig. Duck5 was given to the Trans Ark.
Duck1-4 got the Iromono with crushed Koma slurry, Crushed on a 1100 Atoma because yes Koma scratches Iromono.
Special thanks to jnats for the privilege to use such a pretty finisher.

Ultrasoundguy

Wow! I was eyeing Garrets iromono kitta for some time. Hope it performs as good as it looks.

Steve and Mike, your jnats make my heart flutter, I'm just getting into natural stones and I can see why so many get sucked into that rabbit hole...

Originally Posted by markbignosekelly

Ultrasoundguy

Wow! I was eyeing Garrets iromono kitta for some time. Hope it performs as good as it looks.

Steve and Mike, your jnats make my heart flutter, I'm just getting into natural stones and I can see why so many get sucked into that rabbit hole...

Garret has been very kind to me. Truth is I have used 2 of his stones and both are wonderful. My Nakayama blew my doors off. Iromono is in the same category. His Naguras are just as good. I have been tempted by the bay. I cant see buying from an unknown when Garret has took the time to teach. He says getting into those khan rings of those hones shown has special powers when you hone with the lines. He said it more eloquently and precise. Yes the Iromono was a treat to hone on. But as all gentlemen know I must return his baby. Thus the pictures before it heads home.

Catching up on pics

Just found this hiding in my Imgur account a stand out for that day

Right before I left for the Denver meet up,, 4 framebacks finished on my PHIG misty slurry dilute to clear water





Hone on gents

used my Naniwa 12000 for the first time... what a difference adding the 12000 to the Norton 4/8k.

Mike,

According to Alex Gilmore, that tree ring pattern was shared by Narutaki and Nakayama, so maybe that 'thins the herd' a little when it comes to identifying the origin of the stone. Of course, nothing is certain with Jnats.

This is a re-hone of a Towa Scheon Burg frameback I got from Stefan and carried with me to France for a couple of weeks - it's a good shaver and I wanted nice shaves on the trip. When I bought it, I asked Stefan if he used tape and he said yes, one layer.

The tape in the image though is 1 mil DuPont Kapton, a wear-resistant and wonderful tape for razor honing. It's actually 1.2 mil and the adhesive makes it 2.7 mil total, but still less than half the thickness of most electrical tapes. An added bonus is that the razor feels more normal on the hones, and you can strop with it in place if you wish.

I re-set the bevel on a Shapton Pro 2k, then Shapton 5k/Shapton HC Glass 8k followed by koma nagura and tomo nagura on the finisher. I used one piece for the 2k stone, and the same piece for the 5k and 8k stones, and another for the finisher.

Et Voila! A great edge.

Cheers, Steve