Thread: Neat Barber Hone Trick

For those of you addicted to barber hones - you know who you are! - here is a nifty trick!

Ge a caulking gun, with Silicone Caulk in it, and squirt a little bit - about the size of a dime - on each corner of the hone. Let it set-up a tad, and then while it is still a bit pliable, turn the hone over on a FLAT surface, and press it down gently, to flatten the corner dabs.

PRESTO! You now have nonskid, waterproof FEET on the hone!

Chaaaz - always looking!

Outstanding Idea. I have heard of guys using the rubber shelf paper and cutting it out the size of the hone to keep it from slipping also. Good stuff.

I'll do ya one better! Drill holes in the hone at least an inch in from each corner, then countersink them just deeper than the screwheads and screw the hone to your desk!

Ummmmm....welll that won't go over too well in work, and I need to be able to move the hones around at home, in order to avoid my teenaged daughters!

Chaaaz - slinking and honing

I wouldn't try that silicone caulk trick with a two-sided hone, though. I bought a hone holder from Blade Gallery for my Norton 4k/8k, but it's only for hones from 7" - 9" in length. I don't know if there are hone holders for smaller hones, though I'm sure anyone with woodworking experience could make one out of wood. Maybe a wood hone box (like the Norton box), but made out of a material that wouldn't be damaged by water or lather.

Another way is to do it is to "borrow" some of your wife's (or "Sig.Other's") plastic cutting boards. Get a 2X12 or thicker wood scrap board and stack on top the cutting boards alligned along the right side (if you are right-handed). You can separate with paper towels (wet if there is any movement). Use a wet paper towel just under the hone, (folded appropriately, if necessary, to make the water stay on the hone: i.e. a level hone). The idea is to create enough height so that your hand (and the razor handle) that is moving the razor during honing can move freely and not bump anything in the process during the turn around stroke. A towel plus a folded newspaper at the drop-off will catch the water that is pushed/pulled off the hone. You do not want to stain her dining room table!
Monte

Another approach would be to rig-up what is used to allow people withonly the use of one hand to butter a slice of bread.

They take a wooded cutting board, and use either wood slat, or metal ones to attach to the SIDES of the cutting board at a right angle in one corner. The bread can then be placed into that corner of the board, and the attached side 'rails' will hold it there, and keep it from sliding about.

I imagine a version could be very cheaply set-up for a barber hone which would allow honing on the stone without hitting the corner 'fences'.

I will try to rig something up and post it in my folder over the weekend, if I find the time.

Wait, wait, how about this? ..... Get out your router and route-out a shallow depression in your desk in the dimensions of your stone in front of the keyboard so you can hone while reading the message forums? :roll:

I had seen at the Japanesewoodworker.com on the web, they have plans for building a wooden base for the various stones.

I think it is rubber drawerbase, either the kitchen stuff or at Sears they have black stuff, They look like rubber mesh, and you put in the tool drawers of a tool chest, where it keeps the tools from slipping around. Again there is simlar stuff for the kitchen. It is amazing grip stuff, you can cut out a circular piece to use as an improved grip when opening tough to open jars. Anyway this is great non slip base material for honeing stones.


Pen repair it is used as grippy stuff for unscrewing sections of fountain pens.

Best,

John in Covina

Then again, there is the really cheapo, yet effective method!

Simply place the hone on one of those rubber grippers they sell or give away to open stubborn bottle caps. Hone won't slide anyplace.