Thread: Hone of the Day

Jamie you words painted a beautiful picture.

Last weekend I decided to hone my Hart Custom. Truly a one off . It takes the sharpest edge of any razor, every time.
It didn't need honing but I have my newly acquired Escher on its way to me so I thought I'd hone this blade up on synthetics, up to 10k ready for some Escher testing.

Honing away, extremely tired with my G/F talking about stuff that I wasn't listening too when the blade flew out of my hands , cut my finger (tiniest wound ever but it drew blood) and landed underneath my table. (I'd love to see a video replay)
Upon inspection there were two huge chips in the edge.

I was tempted to start honing it at angles and or use the DMT but I figured leave it and think on it.

Fast forward a week to tonight.

I used 3 layers of tape and my Shapton 500k glass stone.
Using mainly straight strokes and a few light circles as to preserve the aesthetics. This 01 steel is tough but brittle and disappears with no effort.
I worked the chips nearly out, then going down to 2 layers and finally the one layer of tape.

Then onto the Chosera 1K . I spent a while on this stone making sure I was all the way to the new edge along all of the edge.

Then I hit the 5 and 10k . First time in an age since I'd used synthetics . It was quick, easy and painless

The blade passes HHT and is ready for my Escher, when it arrives..
Thanks for listening..

I did nearly the same thing with my Hart last weekend, dropped it edge down on the corner of my vermio finisher.

We've all done it. My condolences to the lost steel of your Hart JOB15!

BTW, never sling water off a hone or razor, about 1/1000 of the time you'll sling the hone or razor, and you will be very sad. Don't ask me how I know this.

Cheers, Steve

Originally Posted by Steve56

We've all done it. My condolences to the lost steel of your Hart JOB15!

BTW, never sling water off a hone or razor, about 1/1000 of the time you'll sling the hone or razor, and you will be very sad. Don't ask me how I know this.

Cheers, Steve

How do you NOT know this.

Touched up my Henkels fridour 72 1/2. Stupid hard steel and was just missing after my last session although the others came up fine. Touched up on the Narutaki with slurry then clear water.

Also working on a gd for the friend of a friend. Tried to do it himself and messed it up. Had to fix heel and toe profiles flatten edge, remove chips and remove a small frown. Started with the atoma 1200 then onto Chosera 1k with slurry high honing and then down to flat. Eventually got it right and now will take hair above the skin. Will finish with 3, 5, 8, and 12k Naniwa Super Stones and crox when I get a chance. At least all the hard work is done

Another Russian razor honed with no tape, steel to stone. Final finish on unknown stone 30-50 passes w/slurry....


watered down slurry for another 30-50 passes...


finish w/ water only for 30-50+ passes. Keep that steel singing!

Mike