Thread: Dry Honing

Just for the heck of it I tried honing dry and came out happily surprised with an incredible edge from my Nakayama. It produced a noticably smooth edge that was smoother than a leather stropped blade. The biggest downside was the lack of feedback I got from the hone.

I am just curious what others people's experience is with dry honing.

I've been using coticule with slurry then polishing on water i now trying coticule dry to finish and the result seem good no worse i reckon a bit smoother although i need more time with this i think i am going carry on doing this and for touch i will do 10 laps dry barbers hone fashion there is not much feed back but it sounds nice and crisp.

I mostly use DMTs and spydercos and they work great dry. The norton gets hadly any use b/c of the need for it to be soaked. As a matter of fact, I think I'm just going to go ahead and sell that thing.

i haven't tried Nakayama dry yet. i guess it is time to try.thank you

Just for arguments sake ..... I always thought that the purpose of water, oil, lather or whatever was a vehicle to keep the swarf from loading up the hone ? If you dry hone take care to thoroughly clean the surface of the hone when you're done.

If i decide to polish with a Thuringian, i'll start with slurry & work through plain water till it's dry. I do find you have to be more careful to get the stroke right, but the results are very good.