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Phil, IME a swaty is a bear to lap. A DMT D8C 325 will work but will take a lot of time and wear on the plate. A DMT D8XX 120 grit will eat the swaty for breakfast and cry for more. What I do with...

That is a good one.:tu

I have a barber hone that resembles a Swaty in all regards, color, size, texture.... In the logo section in raised letters it says;

DREI REIHEN
RASEIR
MESSERSTEIN
(Three Line Hone)

The...

I missed that thread or that post anyway. That is a really cool hone. I don't think it is imitation FWIW. It seems that a guy could have a collection of Swaty variants in stampings, length and grit...

There are variations in the stamping/embossing of the logo on the Swaty hones. Some have three lines of text while others have two lines and there are some that will say "Formerly of Marburg...

Welcome to SRP. Many of us are interested in the history of the Swaty barber hones and in possibly dating them by the different inscriptions embossed in the hones. We need a 'detective' who lives in...

Well yes, no and maybe. :D It depends on the razor and the condition of the edge when you take it to whatever hone you are messing with. My point after having read ChrisL's post is that the...

In the early '80s I got a 3 line Swaty and a Belgian Coticule from a barber in New Jersey. He demonstrated his honing with both. On the Belgian with hot lather from the Lather King machine and dry on...

Yes you can. I have a few of them and one of them has the original instructions. The interesting thing on this one is that it said the side with the company name is the "sharper" side. I can't prove...