Thread: Honing is ruining my marriage! (dinner table)

+1 for everything that has been said here.
I use wooden tray, coated with Unica (marine lack) i made for my wife years ago. A towel between a tray and table.
Plastic tray, or cutting board is the safest you can get. Get one and your marriage is saved.

My dinette table is formica so nothing is going to ruin that however I put a plastic place mat over it and use the Shapton Honing Station. It's all rubber and is about the most stable secure piece I've ever used and won't scratch anything.

I use a cuttung board with a damp dish towel folded(which I have dedicated to honing) and my hone in a hone holder sitting on it. Once and a while I have to wring out the dish towel so that does not become super saturated and have water running everywhere.

+1 to the cutting board with a channel in it. I used that today while I was honing and it worked very well. The few splashes of water on the table were from taking the stones out of their water dish they were soaking in.

I use a large metal (I think aluminum) baking tray from Wal-Mart paid $3.00 for 3 different sizes so I took the largest. I place the tray on a folded towel on the counter with the the stone holder in it. All the water stays in the tray and if any gets out it just goes on the towel.


Lu

I use one of those in front of the tv small folding dinner tables,
a rag to absorb the water and it works just fine.

I have a towel with a plastic bag (grocery) underneath. I think that a tray of sorts would be a better choice than mine.

I hold the hone in my left hand - never hone on a table - just can't control it that way for some reason.

I don't generally place my hones on a table or anything, I hold them in my hand while I hone. I do however lay a towel on the surface below (my lap, table, etc.) where I am doing the honing to catch anything that may drip.

I used to use the plastic case that my norton hones came in but I find it easier to hone with them in my hand.

Good input everybody.

I think eventually I'll make some sort of hardwood mount that integrates the moats and the rims on each side to stabilize it. All I need to do now is stop being terrible at honing.