Thread: Hone of the Day

Spydie delica. Zdp-189. 3% carbon 20% chromium. I did this one on my venev diamond bonded stones. A bit of a bear to do on chosera and nats are definitely too soft. And then onto 1 micron cbn on a balsa block.

Originally Posted by Bill31521

Spydie delica. Zdp-189. 3% carbon 20% chromium. I did this one on my venev diamond bonded stones. A bit of a bear to do on chosera and nats are definitely too soft. And then onto 1 micron cbn on a balsa block.

You might be surprised with jnats Bill. I have a SLD slicer that no synth cuts well except Shapton Glass. I can put two kiitas side by side, very similar. One will cut SLD and the other won’t. I had a discussion with Alex Gilmore about that and he said that was his experience, and no way to tell but try them.

But but but I just spent $300 on the venev stones? Lol.

Originally Posted by Bill31521

But but but I just spent $300 on the venev stones? Lol.

That’s why it’s called a rabbit hole Bill...

Those delicas must be popular. Just ordered one in S90V.

I got this bout from Hatzicho a couple years ago. After playing around with coticules and Jnats since last summer, I pulled this out tonight and was reminded of the simple, highly effective and consistent results these thuringians can give. Test shave was perfect in every respect.

Another razor for the giveaways, gents. Its a 5/8 ths. Hunter, from Sheffield. Its been reground from a wedge, to a full hollow, from the looks of things. But whoever did it, did a great job.



Bevel set on Chosera, then progressed with Butterscotch Washita, Lt. blue Thurigan, Coti, and finished on Black Ark.

20 Passes on Cr/Ox strop, normal strop progression ( leaded linen, Russian tanned, Roo ) then final stropping on a C-Mon, shell.

This mornings shave was incredible.! It's every bit the same, as my Escher edges, but possibly a bit more comfortable, too. I was very impressed, to say the least.!

Razor: Friedrich Schmitz Solingen 4/8 (I guess, not meassured but it's smaller than 5/8)

The Stones from top to bottom:
1. Synthetic King 1000: bevel setting. Checked if the bevel is set by cutting into the skin of the blueberry
2. left: a darker version of my natural cretan hones. I using this boy with water creating slurry with another cretan hone (the light grey right to it); removes the 1000-scratches like nothing
3. After refinement of the edge I've jointed it on the small piece of charnley forest gnext to the blueberry) by drawing the razor edge with feather light pressure on it. I believe that doing so I remove some "toothes" eventually lieved by 1000-King. Once done - back to the cretan hone and worked the edge back. Again - easy job, just love this hone
4. Unknown black-brown hone (I gues its a kind of quartzite or something...). This guy is doing incredible job on polishing the edge, but only with edge-trailing strokes (one edge leadig stroke ruins the edge apex, guess it has large but flat crystals). I use this stone in iterating cycles with the Finisher (more on this below).
5. Coticule La Dressante.

When i am done with cretan hone, the edge passes HHT3 to HHT4 on my medium thick hair.

Finishing procedure:
I do 3 iterations with stones 4. and 5. involved.
Each iteration begins with set of 50 back X-strokes on the unknown black-brown hone, the first and second time - with slurry (created by diamond plate), the last time on plain water. Doing back-strokes I hope to refine the edge and to reduce its possible "micro-toothiness". Following by edge leading 40 to 50 X-strokes on La-Dressante (unter running water). In case my back-strokes have created any foil edge, it is removed by Coti. Then strop the razor (20 strokes) on Linen and check HHT.

After the third iteration the edge should pass HHT4 on the thinnest hair i have (have several bunches of different hairs from different people).
Then I repeat stropping on Linen for another 50-60 strokes and strop on plain leather also around 50-60 times.

When done the edge passes HHT5 with flying colors on the thinnest hair i have.

happy honing!

Philipp