Thread: Polish hone?....

Has anyone gotten their Polish hone yet??
I think I purchased on the 24th of Jan but no delivery as of yet.

Just wonderin....

I have recived it 2 days ago, it seems similar to "ardesia" stone, a Black slate very common here in Genoa, it used to make blackboards and pool tables.

I Not tryed to hone, I'll do in the next days

cheers

Matteo

Not yet but I am allowing 3-4 weeks for the slow mail.

Whoa there hold on a minute guys. Didn't we have adiscussionabout slate as a honing medium a bit back and we decided it wasn't the best stuff for honing.

I'm sure there are many types of stones that can be used for honing but personally I'm of the feeling that the reason they use what they do is because they are the best and most have been tried through history.

I just don't see how limestone would be worth a damn as a honing material. Its calcium carbonate and has a hardness of 3 more or less which is probably very close to the hardness of the steel in the razor. I would think it is too soft to hone with. I also don't see how garnets could find their way into slate. Slate is metamorphosed shale which is essentially siltstone or mudstone. Even if a deposit of free garnets got mixed into the shale the metamorphosing process is pretty destructive. I don't see any of the garnets surviving to a point they would be useful for honing. Just my 2 cents.

But hey if you guys are buying give us all a full report and if I'm wrong I'll be a monkey's uncle!

After seeing the title of this thread over and over for the past two weeks, it just now hit me that it actually reads "Polish," as in the country with Poles, not "polish" as in what MAAS does.



Josh

But thuringen stones, aren't slates themselfe?

I got mine. One surface is smooth and the other is very rough. When you lay the rough side down on a flat table the stone rocks when I apply pressure. The one side is very rough! I'll try it on an eBay special and see what it does.

Just received my hone and 2 razors! Thanks Wojtek!

The hone is 6x2 and looks as expected. It is a slate based hone that has been lapped on one side. How it will perform as a hone is to be determined.

The razors are surprisingly attractive and appear to be very well done. I noticed no flaws.

Here are some pics....









I am very pleased!

I like those razors, Randy!
Looking forward to the results of the hone.

Well, I just finished honing the razors!

I examined the edge with the microscope first. It appeared better than any other new razor I have honed! Perhaps Wojtec did some honing on this before he sent it to me? The bevel was very narrow but clean. The razor was not shave ready when I received it.

I started with a 1000 grit sandpaper using a straight across angled tip push stroke. It was then that I noticed a very slight
warp to the blade. No big deal, some new Dovo's have been much worse. I simply changed to an X pattern stroke and then it honed up nicely.

Next I went to the Norton 4k followed by the 8K and finished with a coticule. Now the edge still looks very clean and is very sharp!

The steel is neither soft nor very hard. It reminds me of the standard steel used in German made full hollow razors.

This razor has a wedge grind, single concave, and it is very nicely done. The weight is neither very light nor heavy.

Tomorrow wll be the shave test.