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    Default How do you stabilize your hone?

    How do you stabilize your hone on your worktop or table top? My hones always tend to slide and even turn round on the table top when I push the razor across them regardless how little pressure I use. I have seen all sorts of clamps and other clever contraptions used. However I like simplicity and bought this yesterday: CKS Hot Mat ---

    What do yo guys use?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kees View Post
    However I like simplicity and bought this yesterday: CKS Hot Mat ---
    You must hone a lot faster than I do. I never have a problem with my hones getting hot.

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    I just set down a kitchen towel underneath all my hones. Catches dripping water, and holds them in place just as well as $100 fancy-pants hone holders made of high-grade tool-steel and ultra-vulcanized rubber.

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    Heh .. I use a pantleg from an old pair of jeans I made into shorts.

    Granted it isnt high tech, but it works for me.

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    DMT nonskid mat.
    But regular wet towel works just fine too.
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    I use a generic stone holder - Buy Stone Holders at Woodcraft.com It's also really nice to give you additional clearance under thin (top to bottom, I mean) hones.

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    That is very similar to what I use, only mine has a big picture of SpongeBob Squarepants on it..........

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    Quote Originally Posted by holli4pirating View Post
    I use a generic stone holder - Buy Stone Holders at Woodcraft.com It's also really nice to give you additional clearance under thin (top to bottom, I mean) hones.

    I was about to write the exact same thing. (The Shapton Glasstones are thin enough I HAVE to get them "up" off the table. Even when I hold the hone in my hand the extra clearance is nice.)

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    Quote Originally Posted by holli4pirating View Post
    I use a generic stone holder - Buy Stone Holders at Woodcraft.com It's also really nice to give you additional clearance under thin (top to bottom, I mean) hones.
    I have only one objection to that stone holder. It literally stinks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lynn View Post
    That is very similar to what I use, only mine has a big picture of SpongeBob Squarepants on it..........
    My youngest daughter would say: "That's really cool"
    Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr.

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