Thread: Honing Approach with These Stones

I am a newbie to honing and would like to start honing some old razors. I have the following stones (collected ad hoc and very cheaply): DMT 1200, Japanese 6,000 grit, and a new Thuringian (according to what I was told, but it is in a wooden box and has a slurry stone of similar material).

If I need to set a bevel and hone a vintage razor that is not in too bad of shape, how would I approach it with these stones? Is it possible?

Thanks for any help.

Jeff

It might be possible. You can set the bevel with the DMT and then you will need to spend a lot of time on the 6k because that is a high jump, especially off of a DMT. I've never done it, but I would guess you will need 75 to 100 strokes passes on the 6k. Then for the Thuringian, I would start with maybe 50 laps on slurry and then 25 to 50 with water.

These are my best guesses without ever having attempted such jumps.

Thanks, that will at least give me a range of how long I need to work the stones.

Do you think it would help to bridge the DMT/6000 gap by first doing circles and then the 75-100 laps?

Sure, circles would speed things up for both the 6k and the thuringian. Maybe do 50 to 75 circles on the 6k followed by 10 to 20 x-strokes. For the thuringian, try 50 circles with slurry and then 25 x-strokes with water. Hopefully other opinions will come shortly.

6k Japanese ????

Brand????

I don't know. It is white with a plastic base. The guy I got it from said it was 6000 and there was a slip of paper that confirmed. There is also a nagura that is reddish.