Thread: What does your honing station look like?

Here's mine...following Lynn's advice, I have an absorbent pad under a perforated non-slip rubber mat. Works for me and doesn't drip any water on the floor. The legs of the TV table do wobble, though, and I have to steady it with my knee while honing. How about the rest of you?
Thanks.

It looks like a palm turned upward.

I just hone while sitting at the kitchen table. Nothing fancy. I hold most hones in my left hand while honing on them. I put a kitchen towel on the table and have a kitchen roll at hand, for drying the razor in between hones. I don't use a spray bottle, but a little jar with water. It makes hardly any mess.

Bart.

I hone in the bathroom. I just use the sink for any rinsing off of the stones. I sit on the edge of the toilet, holding the stone in my left hand, and with a hand towel on my left thigh to catch any water that may fall off.

So I really don't have a honing station....and I just keep my hones on a bookshelf when they're not being used. I'm running out of room on the shelf though....

I usually hone at my desk in front of the computer. I hold the hones over a double-size plastic pencil box (on my lap) to catch water. I use a spray bottle and some paper towels. The hones and a marker are placed on a cloth towel by the keyboard. It often looks a lot like my avatar with a barber hone added; except when using the 2"x6" hones or lapping something.

The kitchen sink then my palm.

Charlie

I've talked bad about hhh -hand held honing. But really I know it is quite a cool way to do it.

hats off for such a minimalist approach.

..now i usually hone on my way to work. the hone juxtaposed between steering wheel and gut. I guess it just happens from weaving up through traffic that I manage to spill coffee just when the stone needs a spritz/

uncannily like my hand, actually.

Picture this: hone in hand at kitchen sink. Yup, nondescript, but the water's handy as are the towels and the mess - if I'm doing it the mess is inevitable - is pretty much easily contained.

Standing at the kitchen sink. Never could get comfortable with the palm method. I prefer standing but when I am at work if there is down time I hone sitting at my work station in front of the sink.

Edit, BTW, glad you asked, it was about time I washed the sink.