Thread: have hone, will travel?

They are both Barber Hones. I don't know for sure (newbie, someone else needs to step in here and give you more info) but my Swaty seems to be a finer grit than the lithide. It also seems to bring out a better edge, but that could be my technique (or lack of). Until I got the Swaty I used the Lithide for a finishing hone which is what Tilly described it as (came in her beginners kit).

Hope this helps there are a lot of choices in hones. For example, today I found out there is a stone you can use instead of a strop. Forgot the name of it, I was on the cell phone in a hardware store.

This is a bad picture they are lighter brown than this

Cyrano:
I'm not sure what advantage the small hone would have over a pasted paddle strop for travel. I travel all the time, and always have a paddle (or loom) strop with me. The stone might be smaller, even within a bullet-proof carrier, but otherwise I see no real difference in use. Both are used without anything applied to the surface other than the razor. I must be missing something (besides my mind).




Wayne

The Swaty and the Lithide are both Barber hones. Barber hones are simply a classification term used to describe a manmade hone of approx those dimensions. Barber hones are no longer made but when they were they were multitudes of different grits and names. None were rated by grit size.
The last big stash of hones from the American Hone Company in Monrovia Iowa was purchased By Anton and Diana Till a few years ago. She is known as Tilly and sells them on Ebay where she is known as Redtrader99.. She also has a website, www.redtrader99.com and her email is redtrader99@fastmail.fm. Contact her and tell her what you want. She is a really great person to deal with.
Make sure you specify what grade of hone you want, coarse, medium, fine or finishing.

Hope this helps.

Originally Posted by cyrano138

also, what is a swaty exactly, and how does it differ from a lithide and a barbe hone?

so the lady at redtrader recommended two hones from the following page

http://www.redtrader99.com/hones.html

she said the double duck and the premier would be good. any thoughts?

Both have been used by some of our members here.
Hopefully they will post soon.

i already won a swaty on ebay. hopefully it will work well as a travel hone and a little more since i may be going on trips that last a couple of months at a time. also, i had some questions about the honing pyramid you gave me.

I stand to be corrected on the Swaty vs Lithide. Lithide is finer grit than the Swaty.Tilly set me str8.