Thread: Tragedy!

I was working around in my workshop a little bit this morning, just cleaning up and applying another coat of tung oil to some scales I have waiting on blades in the tumbler. By the way, this restoration thing is highly addictive. my pant leg caught on a piece of sheet metal and brought it tumbling down. Unfortunately on that same piece of metal were my DMT plates and my barber's hone. of course the DMTs are fine, but the barber's is now split in half. And I never even actually took the time to figure out what type of barber's it was. Or, truth told, if it was a true barber's or something different. It does, or did before it lost a good 2.5 inches of the 6.75" length, give a very nice finish after my 8k DMT though. It is double sided, with the rougher being a reddish-brown maybe (color-blind, give me a break) and the smoother being grey with lighter, possibly peach, flecks in it.

I suppose I can still use the longer half after rounding the edge clean, but it just will not be the same.

As an aside and because I had not asked it previously, anyone have any idea what type of stone it might be so that I can look for a replacement?

ahhh!...that stinks

Turn it into something positive like...'it's not broken, I just wanted a matching slurry stone'

sorry to be perdandic, but there is no longer half. In England we speak ENGLISH

Oh tragedy in deed! Rest in pieces, little barber hone!
... or get glued

Originally Posted by blag147

sorry to be perdandic, but there is no longer half. In England we speak ENGLISH

Over on this side of the pond we ain't required to speak the King's English. Not since 1776.

I was talking to the fellow that does the honing at Japan Woodworker some time ago and he mentioned that he had glued many synthetic hones back together with Gorilla Glue. Dunno if that would work but thought I'd mention it.

You may be the other side of the pond but we are still brothers

I do say, jolly ol bit of misfortune thoust hast encountered there, ol chap!


It looks like a synthetic to me. But from the pictures it looks waaay waaaay rougher than a finisher, so I doubt I could judge anything from them. I'd guess it's an india stone or something similar (aluminum compound) just from the look of it. The only advice I can give is make sure that the barber hone you get has PRINTING identifying it as a barber hone. Some "Fine grit finishishing/polishing razor" hones I've bought off eBay have been in the 500-2k grit area.

No one says old chap over here. We are not that quante anymore. But we can still be pollite and good mannered. We in the shaving circle should hold ourselves in good esteem as gentle folk who have good manners

Just a bit of teasing in good fun, being as my grandfather was as British as they come and never spoke in any way similar to what is represented as "olde English" over here.

I do recall him prefixing curses with "Bloody" once or twice though.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

Over on this side of the pond we ain't required to speak the King's English

We've noticed.