Thread: Hone of the Day

Originally Posted by cudarunner

Patience, Observation, more Patience, more Observations on and on so as the owner and the rock form a lasting relationship.

Sometimes a rock and it's owner just fall in love and walk down the lane of honing bliss hand in hand. Other times, they digress, walk away, rejoin and finally fall in love.

That's pretty much the story of MY life with natural stones...... Some I've set my mind to flog it off, but stopped by the fact I wouldn't wish such torment on anyone else, only to turn around, re-visit the hone and discover I love it after all!

I have a couple of those hones that just make me want to chuck them in the garbage.... and yet, sometimes they produce a wonderful edge. Clearly, I'm just not "one" with those hones yet, but I need to give them another chance. I first loved my coticule, then I thought it was too coarse, then too slow.... now, I still think it's slow, but dang... it gives me such a wonderful edge if I stick with it and just give the razor the number of laps it takes.

I got spoiled with the synthetics and the speed with which they work.... I've also fallen for others description of the speed with which some natural hones work, only to find out I need to spend a lot more time on them, before producing the same results. It could very well just be me and my style of honing.

I'm pretty fussy about my edges.... getting a good solid edge is easy, getting a great edge seems to take a lot more effort... perhaps more than some are willing to invest. I've recently retired so time is more available, thus my revisiting all my naturals. Maybe I should stop.... after all, I was going to sell all the ones I've revisited, and now they are not going anywhere..... I've got a couple more to try, and right now they are in the sales pile... but if I decide I like them.....<groan>.


Regards

Kaptain "I've got way too many hones already" Zero