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