Thread: Could use some help...

In the mean time, if you need some honing done, I'll gladly do a few of yours for free. I'm generally only doing one free one per person but I'll touch up some of yours till you get your strokes back. I'm glad to see that you're back.

I have a 4 sided paddle with paste but I have never used it as a substitute for hones so I cannot speak to that . Here is a post by Tony Miller explaining the pastes.

I have had better luck with the 0.5 diamond spray that SRD carries applied to their felt strop than I did with the pasted paddle. That may be because of my application of the paste. I don't know and I didn't use it much.

I have always honed one handed. You might try to work on dominant hand honing. I had the fingers of my left hand badly injured when I was a young ironworker. Took a year before I could make a tight fist.

Five years ago I took a spill on my road bike and broke my collar bone and separated my AC joint. I still have numbness in areas around my left wrist and it took awhile before I had full range of motion in the left arm. Hang in there and keep working on it and you will get better with time and physical therapy.

If you are going to switch over to pastes and sprays I think you would do better with a flatbed hone with interchangeable pads than a 4 sided paddle. Given that your finishing strokes will probably be with CrOx or Diamond spray (taking two surfaces) you will probably want more than 2 other compounds in the arsenal. You could also jump from leather to felt as your needs change.

Check in with Lynn or Don. I think they might be able to set you up with something that will work.

Thanks for the help, guys.

Additional suggestions/opinions/wisecracks always welcome....

I appologize, but in the course of thinking about pastes and sprays I missed something important. Sorry to hear about your physical problem and surgery. I hope your recovery goes smoothly. As you said, keep up with the "therapy". Maybe your Doc could prescribe a couple of Nakayama stones, or something.