Thread: A novel hone idea

Oh so I've been doing a lot of thinking. I've posted a few of my ideas in here in the basic honing forum trying to come up with some interesting ideas to create something like a barber hone.

Here is my newest idea, which I may be able to try sooner.

I know that balsa wood has been used as a pasted strop.

But would it be possible to use a piece of wood with a regular honing X pattern? If I were to find a wood hard enough and apply some kind of paste to it, lets say the hardest wood in the world...Lignum Vitae?

From what I understand the main problem would be that most hardwoods have much larger pores than soft woods. Still, does this sound interesting and/or crazy enough that it might actually work or has someone beaten me to the punch already?

Thank you for your time.

PS- the price for lignum vitae is not too bad. Here is the source I found. Barber hone sized pieces to :
http://www.exoticwoodgroup.com/order...gnum_vitae.htm