Thread: Swaty hone

Found this Pike Swaty hone at an antiques store today.

Very nice find,,, thank you for sharing it.

Originally Posted by Fenster

Found this Pike Swaty hone at an antiques store today.

Many congratulations! That is of the highest quality..Mine was checked out at about 12K+ by Modine.
A good one to have if you hone without tape. even so a bit of tape doesn't take that long and six laps dry can do a wonder on a pulling blade.
Wash it well with only lather and a clean rag. I use most barber hones dry, Modine likes the lather on his. Your choice both are usually at your shave space.
Again; you came up a winner!
~Richard

Cool barber hone. Congrats.

Thanks guys. It's in great shape too, no chips or dings, and I think I got a good deal.

I was at two antique shops today and only found a few marginal razors and no hones. Needless to say, I didn't buy the razors because they were poor examples at best. Nice find.

Here's my Swaty. It is a more rarer one. It's every bit of 8 inches. I'm not trying to be a show off, you got really lucky & got one w/o any chips that I can see. You probably got that one for little or nothing. I don't have the luck in antique stores lately but I left my card with a couple the last time I went. I've since bought a couple for a good deal on eBay, lapped them on a diamond lap & resold them on eBay for even more. I didn't have to take much off them either.

Originally Posted by guitstik

I was at two antique shops today and only found a few marginal razors and no hones. Needless to say, I didn't buy the razors because they were poor examples at best. Nice find.

Thanks, yep I ran into the same thing with the razors, I did not find any good ones. I am very happy with the hone though and that made it well worth the stop.

You got you a damn good one! Good luck.

Congratulations! I'm sure that you're gonna love that hone.

I have come to enjoy using barber hones...I have a 5" Velvet Edge, and an 8" version of your Swaty...and though they both perform very well, I especially like the Swaty. It's amazing what a few strokes can do for a blade...and I really do mean "a few strokes"! I've tried using mine both wet and dry, and prefer to use it wet. Until recently, I was using plain water, but I read that Windex® works well; I tried it and liked the feel, and haven't used anything else since. For better or worse, I've decided to always use tape on my razors, even for a few swipes on a barber hone. I figure that the hone doesn't know to only remove steel at the cutting edge, and those microns removed from the spine add up!

Enjoy your Swaty!