Thread: Not sure how I never found this before.

The Carborundum 201 was marketed & used as a razor hone, once you clean it up, the colors will be gray & a cream color.

Just on this site is a link to this exact hone, same company but different box. Thanks to CJBianco & yangas91
http://straightrazorpalace.com/hones...m-hones-3.html

Remember, that in the time this hone was popular, there was a lot less in the way of choices, when it came to razor hones. Will this hone, cleaned & lapped as Ryan said, work? Yes, it will. Would I use this particular hone on my familie's heirloom, probably not; because I would choose another hone, like a modern water hone & keep the Carbo 201 that you have as a family collectable only. Why, unless you are quite good at your razor honing, the Carbo 201 might be a handfull to start on. The modern water hones would be an easier journey, IMO.

If I owned the both, I would eventually like to use the 201 on that razor, but be confident of your hone ability first.

Well, to be fair it would likely be best to put the initial edge on the Boker with other hones (or send it out) and then maintain the edge with the Carborundum.

I will try it some day, but I just got a 4k/8k and a shapton 16k, and a couple sacrificial practice razors from the bay that I will be working on some technique with.

Since we are on the topic of hones though, the eBay razors came with a stone as well, from the picture on eBay it looks like a dubl duck dry hone, how do they rate?

Do you have this Dbl Duck?
or
are you asking about an item still in auction?

It is currently in the mail.

Show us a photo of it when it gets to you, a lot of us would love to see it.

Restating with change of opinion!
Formerly:

Congratulations! Howsomever, that, is not the hone to use on a razor!!
Enjoy the history and the memories!
~Richard

I apologize for the confusion caused!
I now agree with Hirlau, But still say that just any Carborundum hone would be a disaster. The box is a common one and was used not only on razor hones.
Many razors I find in shops where the former owners had taken a knife hone and destroyed the edge and spine. I believe that it is better to warn than sit back and say nothing. Some of these threads die after a couple posts.
~Richard

I agree.....

Nice find! I love it when I find family history. To bad most of my grandparents' stuff was packed away and sent off to good will when I was about 10.

A man such as myself could only dream of gettig a hand me down famlywise razor. On both sides of my family men die from 30 to 50years old do getting to know grand parents is not possible. Im 28 n my dad and poppa on both sides r long gone(dads been gone 11 years) so I didnt get the desire to feel what a straight shave would feel like. Although what sparked my initial interest was Clint Eastwoods spaghetti 8 westerns. Especially where he was tim duncan and was whipped by the hired hands of a mining company in a town called lago or largo whitch later in the movie was painted red. I first saw the movie when I was aprox 5 with my moms dad. N my first thought of straight razor shaving was at age 16 ( already shaving for 3 years) when I watched the same movie with my brother but didnt trust anyone enough to actually go get a straight shave. But any way I could go on and on about my self but I guess what im trying to say is congrats