Thread: Argh, HAD is kicking in!

I've spent so many hours this week looking at hones, and I'm sooooo close to ordering a coticule from Howard. There's not really a point to this thread, I just had to vent the HAD. I want I want I want! It's amazing how badly one can want something as simple as some scratchy rock

I feel your anxiety and it's warranted . . . I've only been attempting to hone for the last few months and I've already accumulated a 4K/8K Norton, two coticules (one small vintage and one new one), a thuringian, a Swaty, a Chinese 12K, and a DMT1200. Oh, and a pasted paddle strop.

Careful, or this might become your future!

Do it. Now.

Josh

Lmao, thanks Josh.

It's not a question of whether I will get one, it's just when. I think I'll end up first with one of the smaller coticules, then eventually something with a lower grit when I get better. I'd like to get to the point where I can get good razors into shave readiness, plus knives. I want to put those stupid knife sharpening jigs to shame

Originally Posted by Quick Orange

It's not a question of whether I will get one, it's just when.

I think Josh answered your "when" question as well - "Now"
well, what can I say - i know what you mean by 'wanting something so badly' - no point resisting it for too long.

No offense, but buying a yellow coticule does not qualify as HAD yet.
I have 2 nortons, a flattening stone, a yellow /blue belgian combo, a small yellow bout, an unnamed coarse stone and a belgian blue.

The latter 2 stones I picked up at a flea market, the small bout I got from my mother, and the others I just bought for a reasonable price.
They serve different purposes (1 for taking out nicks, 1 for honing and 1 for finishing)

So even that does not qualify as HAD. Especially since I haven't bought a hone in almost a year.

True HAD is when you start spending > 400 dollar for your 2nd yellow / green escher or 3d japanese natural stone. And when you have it you want another. and another, and 300 dollar is a bargain...