Thread: Unusual materials as related to straight razors

I have played around with making hones with various binders, shellac, acrylics, hide glue, epoxy. I also used various abrasives. I was never happy with what I made. I never could get the binder to abrasive ratios where they needed to be. I always ended up with too much binder and not enough abrasive. The first hones I made would better an 8k edge, but had the worst feed back of any hone. It was like honing on plastic. Randy and I messed around a lot and bounced ideas back and forth. I gave up on hone making, Randy has moved on to better ideas.

Most of my ideas and previous home made hones can be found using the search function on this forum.

Charlie

I was thinking about this last night. One option that might work with CrOx is sputtering it onto glass. I've done it before, but it was only for a 1 mil layer to help bond two pieces of glass together on their faces. I suppose you could build up layers of the stuff though. Essentially turning it back into rock with a glass substrate.