Thread: Who turns your hone around to get even wear?

I started reversing my hones about half my use of each hone trying to get more even wear on both edges of the hone. Anyone else do this or have thought about it? What do you do?

Dave "Slawman" Huffman

That's some good thinking on ur part... When ur figuring things like that on ur own it means that ur doing a great amount of thinking about ur hobby so good job! From what I understand it is pretty common practice and is actually something I wasn't doing until someone pointed it out to me....

happy honing!

Always done that - if even to account for the fact that even though the home is lapped - it may be inconsistent - and, still being a beginner, it made me think I knew what I was doing :-)

Always have. Always will. It's not just a matter of wear, it's also to take advantage of the entire swarf-free surface.

If I'm doing several razors I end for end the thing each razor. So yeah I do it. Just love and respect for a 100+ year old stone I guess.

I turn it while honeing and lap it when necessary.

Yep always have

I always have and I'm not real certain it was for 'Even Wear' I think that I was just being Anal. Like instead of just dunking or rinsing the hone off to remove the slurry I take the stone out of the stone holder and rinse Everything Very Well.

That's just 'ME'

I do fairly often, not always with touch ups but with heavy lifts absolutely. Exception would be JNat koppas that only have one good side.

Cheers, Steve

Yep I turn mine also.
Never thought of it, just did it...