Thread: The "Perfect" brand barber hone... pictures

I've made reference to a barber style non-natural hone from time to time known as the "Perfect" brand hone. As far as barber hones go, it really does live up to its name since it's the smoothest/finest hone I've owned. I actually sold my 3 lines of text Swaty and kept this one since I found this to be as good and IMO a hair superior to a Swaty 3 line (3 lines of text). The paper label inside the box is reminiscent of labels you see on vintage Eschers and the hone itself has a colorful paper label afixed to it which I've never seen on a barber style artificial hone. Does anyone else have one of these?










Chris L

Don't have one, but it looks like a very nice carborundum hone.


Scott

+1. Looks like my Carborundum Co. hones too.

I wish it showed up in the pictures, but I was not able to show that the surface even after lapping is as smooth as glass and like a 3 line Swaty is not porous in any way. I agree on the carborundum similarity. This is a very hard hone.

Chris L

I've lapped several Swatys and Carborundum Co. hones. My Carbos all seem to be considerably harder than the Swatys (2 and 3 line), based on lapping time and swarf build up on a DMT. I also think that the finer grit Carbos are a bit better than the Swaty.

I agree completely, Steven. The following hone that I had and lapped was far and away the hardest hone of any natural or synthetic I've ever owned:




I'm still surprised at how long it took to lap that on the DMTs even starting with the D8XX

Chris L

Thanks for the neat last picture, Chris. It might suggest that your hone isn't carborundum, but corundum. Both materials are, as expected from the names, very closely related.

If you have an engineering bent, here's a wiki page on it (search corundum on the page). The wiki even mentions the Carborundum Company.

Very nice stone! I have a preferrence for natural stones, but that one might just change my mind...Where did you pick it up?

Dave

i used to had one and never used .i liked very much.i thought it was close to escher i mean i am talking maybe 8months-1 year ago.I don't think you can compare this stone to corboundum stones.this is just my thought

Originally Posted by StraightRazorDave

Very nice stone! I have a preferrence for natural stones, but that one might just change my mind...Where did you pick it up?

Dave

I got it off Ebay. At the time, I actually felt it was one of those times where I went out on a limb and got burned. IIRC the pics showed the label on the inside of the box and the surface of the stone and that's it. It didn't even say it came with a box from what I recall. They way it was portrayed, I thought it was a Thuringian. Thankfully I didn't pay Escher-like prices for it, but at the time I thought I overpaid.

Originally Posted by hi_bud_gl

i used to had one and never used .i liked very much.i thought it was close to escher i mean i am talking maybe 8months-1 year ago.I don't think you can compare this stone to corboundum stones.this is just my thought

Bud, are you saying you had one of these "Perfect" brand hones and you liked it?

Chris L