1st hone?

[TenorClef]

Hello, straight shavers! I've got a couple of shave ready straights coming from www.whippeddog.com/ (thanks Larry!) and also the poor man's strop set up.

Any way, i was wondering if when my Straights start to lose their sharpness if this hone would be a good choice to bring it back to its sharpness before i eventually have to send it away for a proper honing service???

See-

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI....3723964&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT#ht_500wt_749

Thanks for any input guys!

 

[Huxley]

It's fine for any light touching up, anything more than that then i would look at a coti or naniwa 8k/10k.

The c12k is hard wearing, requires very little lapping if any, it's also very slow often requiring over 100 laps or so.

For the money it's a good stone, provided you're patient.

 

[azmark]

It's fine for any light touching up, anything more than that then i would look at a coti or naniwa 8k/10k.

The c12k is hard wearing, requires very little lapping if any, it's also very slow often requiring over 100 laps or so.

For the money it's a good stone, provided you're patient.

A C12K is a good starting point because of price point. You'll may notice that you may want something a little faster then that's when the fun begins.

But I would really concentrate on learning how to strop correctly. It seems more and more posts are coming up asking what touch up stone to use, which is fine because one would need a touch up stone, but when someone strops correctly your use of touch up stones should be few and far between. Though this will depend on the razor and how it keeps its edge.

I would invest on some chromium oxide (crox) for touch ups if your strop is not bringing the sharpness back. A few passes on crox should get the edge up to keenness for a long use until you need to touch it up on hones or completely rehone.

 

[wazazzle]

I just bought a c12k from this vendor last week. I bought the 6x2x1 with slurry 1x1x2, paid $10+$14s/h = $24. Pretty fast shipping considering it arrived 10 days later to WA state from Poland. Packaging was a plain brown box with bubble wrap, no storage container. He does mention that cutting dimensions vary ever so slightly. In my case the main stone was 3mm smaller on one end making it slightly Tapered. The stone did arrive PRE-LAPPED as promised, so that was good. Overall i am very happy with the purchase and would recommend him, considering it was the cheapest and best buy for a c12k i found on the net. So YES buy it!


I posted my C12k pic, May 2010 Acquisitions.
http://badgerandblade.com/vb/showthread.php?t=146391&page=15

 

[TenorClef]

Yeah, i thought it might be a good starter, i see he sells a lot of these. The plan is just to use it as a touch up stone. I'll probably end up sending my straights away to get them properly honed when they don't maintain their sharpness any more or at least that's my plan.

Ok so just bought the 12K hone, looks good nice size, lapped flat and the edges chamfered. Newbie question: What's the slurry stone for???

 

[Pumpkin]

Yeah, i thought it might be a good starter, i see he sells a lot of these. The plan is just to use it as a touch up stone. I'll probably end up sending my straights away to get them properly honed when they don't maintain their sharpness any more or at least that's my plan.

Ok so just bought the 12K hone, looks good nice size, lapped flat and the edges chamfered. Newbie question: What's the slurry stone for???

I recently got the same stone...it did a very nice job of refreshing the edge on my Offenbach 6/8 that I'd bought used, knowing it would need a touch up (this is not a good route for a starter! However, I did get my French 4/8 "shave ready" so I already knew what a good edge should feel like).

The slurry stone is to raise a "slurry"....wet the stone and the slurry stone, rub the hone with a flat side until the water starts to go "milky" (it's actually more grey), this gives you a slightly more abrasive surface to hone on, dilute the slurry as you go, eventually you will have clear water on the hone...I did about 40 laps to this point, I then did another 10 laps on the hone dry.

 

[TenorClef]

Thanks for the info Pumpkin, wazazzle, azmark & Huxley. Very insightful.