So I picked up one of these on a recommendation.
I flattened it on both sides and polished it up to 800grit wet/dry
I honed on it and it felt both fast and fine. Not dissimilar to a good swaty. Checked the edge and it looked solid. Not a lot of evident damage, pretty clean profile, tight scratch pattern... like a high grit (8-10k) Jsynth.
Shaved with it.
Wow. I don't even believe overhoning is a thing, and damned if this hone didn't let me overhone to a ridiculous degree. The edge crumbled on my first pass. I wasn't ten seconds into my shave and I looked like someone threw acid on my neck. The razor wasn't even a particularly delicate one.
Images are before and after the shave.
I'm going to have to mess around with this thing, try it dry instead of with water, change up the razor, etc. But damn, I've probably used a thousand hones at this point, if not more. I've never seen a hone absolutely destroy a razor edge like this before. Who out there uses one of these things on a regular basis? Any trick to it I ought to know?
I flattened it on both sides and polished it up to 800grit wet/dry
I honed on it and it felt both fast and fine. Not dissimilar to a good swaty. Checked the edge and it looked solid. Not a lot of evident damage, pretty clean profile, tight scratch pattern... like a high grit (8-10k) Jsynth.
Shaved with it.
Wow. I don't even believe overhoning is a thing, and damned if this hone didn't let me overhone to a ridiculous degree. The edge crumbled on my first pass. I wasn't ten seconds into my shave and I looked like someone threw acid on my neck. The razor wasn't even a particularly delicate one.
Images are before and after the shave.
I'm going to have to mess around with this thing, try it dry instead of with water, change up the razor, etc. But damn, I've probably used a thousand hones at this point, if not more. I've never seen a hone absolutely destroy a razor edge like this before. Who out there uses one of these things on a regular basis? Any trick to it I ought to know?