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OK, good!

I was in Vancouver about a year and a half ago for a conference and it was a very nice city. I arranged a mini-meetup for while I was there so I know that there are other straight users...

OK, in that case some issues come up. A barber hone is best used to maintain a previously sharpened razor. Now, that is not the way that I did it but I was monitoring my progress with a microscope...

No, I would not NEED them. However, I have had a lot of fun playing with them and serving as a bad example for other people on the forum!

Nope, you've got it completely wrong. I started with razors that I honed and maintained with just barber hones for about 5 years THEN I found SRP and learned of the existence of the other hones and...

They were a Swaty and a Carborundum 102. I happened to luck out by starting with two of the best barber hones. I maintained a 7 day set of razors with nothing but those two hones for nearly 10...

You're not helping.
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I used two barber hones exclusively for the first 5 years that I used a straight razor. A barber hone alone is sufficient to maintain a razor for the rest of your life.

Yeah, good point. Sorry about that. I have been using barber hones for quite a while and used to regularly watch ebay for them and I don't recall ever seeing that hone before. I'm pretty sure the...

Hey, I could have said that this hone will give a happy ending to your shave, but I didn't.

(Mods welcome to remove if over the line. I figure it's close to it but not sure of which side it's on.)

I agree with Geezer about the use for the two hones. The one with the imprint has to be a good finisher given its name!