Thread: Buying a hone on the web?

Many people on here prefer thin hones. I, personally, love 1.5 inch wide hones.

They take a little longer to get the hang of, but when you do, you will have a wider range of skills and options for honing styles.

Use your money to get a nice finishing stone like a Belgian Coticule from theperfectedge.com, or even a Chinese 12k stone from woodcraft.

Your blades should not be getting uneven hone-wear either, can you describe you process?

Originally Posted by Russel Baldridge

Many people on here prefer thin hones. I, personally, love 1.5 inch wide hones.

They take a little longer to get the hang of, but when you do, you will have a wider range of skills and options for honing styles.

Use your money to get a nice finishing stone like a Belgian Coticule from theperfectedge.com, or even a Chinese 12k stone from woodcraft.

Your blades should not be getting uneven hone-wear either, can you describe you process?

Maybe you are right I just need to learn to do it right.

But it does seem logic to me, that when I crosse a hone in an X pattern, that the middle of the razor gets more honing than near the tip and near the scale. Because the middle gets honed alle the way through the motion, whil tip and end only gets hond ½. This is also exactly whats happens with my razors. I need to do extra honing in both ends to get it as sharp there as in the middle (only sometimes though, sometimes it works out well).

The 250/1000 stone I have is 3 inches wide, and thats just much easier, beacuse it can hone the whole blade in a straight motin without the X pattern.