Thanks for sharing your thoughts Keith.
Gamma, thank you again for this.
Curious, no mention of the Zulu Grey...for some reason I thought you'd been using that over the past year, with positive results? Maybe I'm mistaken...
I have been playing with the ZG as well...YW - I sold my ZG - it was a plausible finisher but it didn't wow me. There were several stones that I tried in the last year, but they didn't get mentioned - the ZG was one, the Dalmore Blue was another, along with the Pyrannese, the green Beryl, and a wealth of barber's hones.
This was very informative, i do look forward to honing once I get my stones in!
Wow - more basement digging. lol.
Sometimes, I feel like it might be time to write out an updated version...
Has Joe Talmadge ever written about sharpening razors, or only about knives?What I found most useful was the theory behind your approach to honing. The closest thing I've found to it was back when I first read Joe Talmadge's writing on Sharpening. Both works offer solid reasoning and theory that can be applied to an individual's personal methods and style of honing.
Has Joe Talmadge ever written about sharpening razors, or only about knives?