Thread: Razor eating into hone

Originally Posted by KristofferBodvin

Here I was wondering were to get some plexiglass or similar flat thing in the same size.

Trust me, I went through the same process when I was trying to think of what I had that was flat enough for lapping the hone, and I have two DMT plates!

Originally Posted by Utopian

Trust me, I went through the same process when I was trying to think of what I had that was flat enough for lapping the hone, and I have two DMT plates!

You mention that you own other expencive naturals.I can imagine nagiamas,coticule, escher etc.Why do you still use the chinese as a finisher do you really find it that good?

Btw: I just tried something.I know the norton is to soft,but still.I gave the chinese a good rubbing.First with the 4000 and second with the 8000.It seemed to smooth it out somewhat.I'll try some honing later tonight.
Also: I find my chinese slurrystone actually make some pretty bad marks on the surface...

Originally Posted by KristofferBodvin

You mention that you own other expencive naturals.I can imagine nagiamas,coticule, escher etc.Why do you still use the chinese as a finisher do you really find it that good?

Btw: I just tried something.I know the norton is to soft,but still.I gave the chinese a good rubbing.First with the 4000 and second with the 8000.It seemed to smooth it out somewhat.I'll try some honing later tonight.
Also: I find my chinese slurrystone actually make some pretty bad marks on the surface...

I guess I use different hones for different moods more than for different razors. I do not consider myself a sufficient expert, or perhaps competent, honer to be able to adequately judge which razor is best honed with which hone. If I'm not satisfied with the shave test, sometimes I'll switch to a different polishing stone for fine tuning just for the heck of it even though it's just as likely that more laps on the original stone might have accomplished the same thing.

You really should not be getting scratch marks from your slurry stone. Maybe you have a bad piece of grit embedded in it. Try re-lapping the slurry stone's surface, either using the original side or another side.