Thread: Whats your current honing setup?

Mostly the Naniwa Chosera / Pro 1-5-10 into one of many Natural finishers

I still use the Naniwa SS 1-3-5-8-10-12 especially for some of the Finicky Chippy new Production and Custom razors

I use the Shapton GS 1-2-4-6-8-16-30 on rare occasions with razors that can handle it

Glen and/or others who go from synth to natural finishers... when finishing, do you use a tomo, diamond plate, or water only?

Originally Posted by Aldwyn

Glen and/or others who go from synth to natural finishers... when finishing, do you use a tomo, diamond plate, or water only?

I know you don't want to hear it, but

"It depends on the Stone"

In general, I use a light slurry to "Introduce" the 10K Hone edge to the Natural Stone how I make that slurry depends on the Natural Stone I am using, sometimes on the Slurry Stone / Nagura I am using on that Stone

The problem with Naturals is that they are by definition "Natural" so there is really no recipe that I use that will for sure work for you
The one constant is that I always use a light slurry when I come off the 10k

Naniwa SS for me, 1-2-5-8-12k. I’ll occasionally throw an ark finish on after the 8k or 12k depending on razor. The naniwas are just easy. There are definitely some little tricks you can do to get a little more refined finished edge but not required. For all the finishers and screwing around we do I always go back to the naniwas and a couple of laps on a hanging fabric strop loaded with optical grade crox. To make things easy watch Glens videos on the Naniwas he pretty much figured it all out for those stones so we don’t have to.

Originally Posted by jfk742

Naniwa SS for me, 1-2-5-8-12k. I’ll occasionally throw an ark finish on after the 8k or 12k depending on razor. The naniwas are just easy. There are definitely some little tricks you can do to get a little more refined finished edge but not required. For all the finishers and screwing around we do I always go back to the naniwas and a couple of laps on a hanging fabric strop loaded with optical grade crox. To make things easy watch Glens videos on the Naniwas he pretty much figured it all out for those stones so we don’t have to.

That must be nice having such short intervals between grits.

1k Chosera ( green brick ) W/ brown turd (dressing stone)
for slurry.

Washita W/water

Lt. blue Thurigan. Slurry to water

Blue/green, barbers delight, slurry to water.

No stria at this point, just a hazy finished bevel.

Ooh la la ...! After the strops.

DMT 325 for worn and damaged blades. Shapton glass 1k, 2k, 4k, 8k, and finishing on a Shapton Pro 12k. Occasional finish on an Arkansas hard black if the Shapton Pro edge seems a little harsh. Sometimes, like yesterday, I'll do a quick hone on the good old Norton 4k/8k followed by the Shapton 12. The Norton 4k, when well broken in, can also serve as a bevel setter for blades that are just dull, rather than damaged.

Come on, where is the dude who hones with a 1k,2k,3k,4K,5k,6k,7k,8k,9k,10k,11k,12k ? I know you are out there.

I often go from 5K to final Jnat finisher. You don't need anything in between. It depends on my mood whether or not I use a tomo. If you don't use much pressure on the 5K the striae won't be deep so you don't need an 8K to remove 5K striae. I have a full set of 4 asano naguras but IMHO using them is a waste of time.

Originally Posted by Badgister

Come on, where is the dude who hones with a 1k,2k,3k,4K,5k,6k,7k,8k,9k,10k,11k,12k ? I know you are out there.

Nice...

Starting with JNats I used a 1K -> 4K -> 8k -> full mikawa nagura (botan through koma) -> tomo

But as I got familiar with the nagura I saw where I was going backwards, and where my steps could be skipped.

Still dialing in, but right now I'd say my routine is 1K -> 4K -> 8K -> JNat finisher with tomo.