Thread: Narrowed it down but need help choosing a hone

If you endeavor to keep your edge sharp rather than letting it get dull and resharpening it, your choices are a lot easier to make. A coticule will keep your razor sharp. I keep one in my medicine chest and give the razor a few licks every week in order to keep it sharp. I then strop and that's that. If I get lazy, I'll take it to my belgian blue and then coticule and then natural leather.

The D8EE is an aggressive cutter and you'll see shiny metal on the edge after 3 swipes. Unfortunately, it needs a bit of refining after that with a coticule or esher as the diamonds just don't leave an edge face-friendly.

Howard

Originally Posted by pjrage

Hey Pete do you get the SIC online or is there somewhere local?

I got it from here:

Lapidary Equipment, Supplies, Lapidary Tools From Kingsley North

I bought the "abrasive grit kit". It gives pretty good range of grits and also throws in some ceruim oxide to play around with. If you wanted they would prolly substitute another grit for one in the kit.

Silicon Carbide - Grit - Kingsley North

Originally Posted by Slartibartfast

i have this set. The dmt 600 gets the most work and i usually do a few laps on the dmt 1200 also, just because i can.

I have experimented a bit with the dmt 8k.... It may just be in my head, but i dont like the edge. Even after naniwa 12k and CrO.

You also get zero feedback...

Yeah, the edge off the dmt 8k seems pretty harsh to me also, but I'm usually able to get it fairly smoothed out (at least under a loupe) with lapped spydercos. The scratches it leaves seem pretty deep and stubborn. Doing what Maestro Livi does in his video-kind of lightly circling the razor a few time before honing back and forth-seems to help some. I guess its kind of like cross hatching when you polish metal.