Barbers Hones Reviews and comparisons.

[eKretz]

Lol, somehow I doubt that...

 

[Brooksie967]

Sorry Ian for derailing. If you anyone is interested to see my knives on instagram add me jeremybrooks13. Nice to see everyone here tho

 

[SliceOfLife]

No worries. Good to see you still kicking around.

 

[stone and strop]

I take off the former edge with a 6k JIS. In the case of two sided stones, I use both sides of the stone.

Just curious Ian, why not test the fine side off of the 6k JIS.
I realize they were meant to be used together but the coarse side would not be used often.
Some of the combination hones had a fine side that was really fine and hard to get a good read on from using the coarse side first.
Frictionite as an example. Its hard to remove the damage from the coarse side without creating a wire edge giving more than normally needed on the fine side to clean up the coarse side.
The panama (black finish side model) has a ridiculously fine finish side but the coarse side is in the 4-6 range. Off a 6k JIS the finish side would be a much improved edge from the coarse side to finish result.
Many of the combo hones I would not use the coarse side on but would certainly use the finish side.

 

[jj_sharp]

Is there any chance that the hone review man can go to the first message and edit it to have a sorted list or hones reviewed? That is, sorted by performance, perhaps in groups (best, ok, poor).

 

[SliceOfLife]

I could probably request a moderator to update periodically with a list by making it and sending it to them, but giving me edit permission to a specific thread or post might be outside the options available on the sites software. I just started a new job and a 3week difeq course as well as two engineering courses, so I’m pretty swamped right now and won’t be updating much, but once things calm down I’ll inquire about that.

 

[jj_sharp]

[Edit test, seems to work].
I think we can modify our own posts, I am testing that right here.

Good luck with the new job. I presume you are referring to Differential Equations. When I finished that course, I did not understand what I learned.

 

[David]

There’s a limit on the time you have to edit your post.

Good luck with the new job, Ian.