Thread: No-strop Hone

i just bought a Victory No-strop hone. It has a fine stone on one side and what looks like plexiglas on the other. It calls the plexiglas a hone and the other side a stone.

Does anyone know anything about this type of barber hone? It says "strictly dry." It says one pass on the hone is equal to 10 on leather. The instructions are unclear - 6-8 strokes forward and then "4 backward as in stropping." Am I supposed to go forward on the plexiglass and backward?

Where did you get this no-strop hone?

jmsbcknr

Joe,
I have seen those on eBay before. I was tempted but had spent all my money on some "snake oil" barber hones....stupid marketing ploy I think :roll:

Is the "plexi" surface possibly really glass instead? There are razor blade sharpeners that are simply glass curves (looks like a skateboarders halfpipe...don't ask me how I know this). You shimmy the blade back and forth across the glass and it aligns the edge like a butchers steel. I suspect that if the instructions guide you to go either sirection this may be the case.

Have you seen the sharpeners with 2 marbles on eBay? Same idea. The hard glass surface burnishes the edge.

Tony

I got this one on Ebay, and it was cheap.

I don't think it's glass. It's about 1/4 inch thick and the hone weighs too little.

I tried a razor on it edge forward, and I got some fine particles on the edge that look like plexiglass. I won't do that anymore. But honing like a strop seems very effective. It does use far fewer strokes than leather.

The stone is in great shape and it's very fine. I don't know why theysay to use it dry. I've seen that before and the stones worked perfectly well wet.