Thread: How many classic barber hones do you have?

Originally Posted by Hirlau

I have a few, but have only used 3 different ones to refresh my razors. Rarely do I use them at all. I have a 'beat up" Swaty just for finishing my knives & sometimes for axes.

My barber hones are as follows: ...

thanks for the listing. I've seen a lot of those, but none of yours replicate any of my short stack (at least in name) yet.

I like to think of them as travel hones.

Hirlau: The Unofficial King of the Barber Hones, I think that is your second title, the first one was Saint Hirlau.

More on my barber hone....and they are boring as someone has noted...but iconic. Aside from the incredible smoothness and the density I really like the graphics of the label in the container which itself is cool, hammered aluminum....I'm getting so jacked up now talking about it that I think I'll go home and put on my white nylon barber's smock, slip the hone into my side pocket and step outside the shop and have a cigarette. Wait, I don't have a shop and I don't smoke....

Originally Posted by WW243

Hirlau: The Unofficial King of the Barber Hones, I think that is your second title, the first one was Saint Hirlau.

Well thanks for the compliment, but I'm sure that there are shavers out there with more barber hones than me.
I used to think that 34 straight razors was a large collection, then I started seeing guys that had tables lined up & completely covered. I think I remember reading a post when I joined of a member who had 3,500 + razors.

Just came across this dead thread. Here is my fairly up to date list and how many of each I have. Looking at this it just dawned on me that apparently I collect barber hones.

Amerco Strop Back
Apart (5)
Barbers Pet (3)
Barbers Pride
Binghams Best Brand
Blue Diamond
Chipaway
C-Mon – Combination Hone
Craftsman – Combination Hone (2)
Dan-Dee
Deluxe No 500 (2)
Exide (2)
Fernslers Ruby
Frictionite 00 (2)
Gem Cushioned Hone-Strop (2)
Guaranteed
John Primble (2)
Kanner
Karbolektrik
Keen Kutter Kombination
King Midas
Lakeside (2)
Noxall
Panama (3)
Pike – Emerald
Pike Strop Hone
Primo Strop Back
Quick & Easy SRD –
Shumate – Blue rounded corners
Shumate – Blue square corners
Shuredge
Square Deal
Steinmetz
Sure Kut
Swaty – 2 line Austria
Swaty – 3 line Austria
Titan
Tonsorial Gem
Winner – Combination Hone
Zenith

XL Barber Hones
Apart
Everkeen Strop Back
King
Pike Cristolon (2)
Plentikeen Strop Back
Swaty

Man, I've got like three! I don't have a diamond lapping stone so I haven't seriously used any of them. I know the binder is bad in one of them.

Do you frequently use barber hones for touching up or do you just like collecting them?

It's a Necro-Poll!

I dig matching them-up with razors I have, so collecting. They do work, but I just use my waterstones.
I still have a short-stack compared to Lazarus!

I did manage to wrestle-away a 'Special Spike' one from him to go with my Spike!
Seriously, he gifted it to me. Great guy!

Originally Posted by JP5

Man, I've got like three! I don't have a diamond lapping stone so I haven't seriously used any of them. I know the binder is bad in one of them.

Do you frequently use barber hones for touching up or do you just like collecting them?

I have used them a bunch over the years. I have some two sided hones that I've used to go from bevel set to acceptable finish. I also find many of them to be pretty acceptable finishers. One drawer in the shave cave has my touch up hones that I rotate hones and stones through. Right now there is a Lakeside, an Apart along with a b/g escher, a mottled escher and a pierre la lune. So in my opinion many BHs can hang with a pretty decent crowd.

Originally Posted by sharptonn

It's a Necro-Poll!

I dig matching them-up with razors I have, so collecting. They do work, but I just use my waterstones.
I still have a short-stack compared to Lazarus!

I did manage to wrestle-away a 'Special Spike' one from him to go with my Spike!
Seriously, he gifted it to me. Great guy!

Ah shucks Tom you're too kind. What goes around comes around is the short story of Tom getting that Special Spike. I almost forgot to delete that one from my spreadsheet.

I agree. I used them strictly for a long time.
You have to dedicate time to try them over your tried and true stuff to find out.
Sortof like you have to enjoy honing!