Group Buy = Hones or razor sharpening stones?

[mkornecki]

Greetings,

I'm just wondering if the stones offered in the group buy are appropriate for use in maintaining a straight razor. Please forgive me if this was already asked as I did a search on "group buy" and looked through a couple of pages.

Thank you for your time,

-Mike

 

[Omak]

Looking forward I'll probably move to straight razor eventually, and who wouldnt like to sharpen their kitchen knives as well?

I've only begun looking into stones, these can obviously sharpen both, but the techniques will be different? Id assume I would also need something with a finer grit to finish the SR? Thanks for any info regarding the above..

Hi Sean,
While I use straights myself I won't state that I'm a honemeister by any stretch of the term so please don't take my words on razor honing as coming from anything other than a hobbyist standpoint.

I have used these stones to hone razors before and truthfully it wasn't a great result at all in the shave quality. The 500x is too coarse for anything but major repair work on a razor and the 5k isn't fine enough. The 5k Rika leaves a toothy edge on knives which works great for grabbing tomato skin but that's gonna be rough on your face.

The one stone from this set that I do often use on vintage razors when I first get them or when re-setting the bevel is necessary is the Bester 1200x, this I find to be exceptional in this role. It's wide, long, hard, slow wearing, and white colored which shows contact and steel removal on the stone's surface very nicely. To me this is a perfect straight razor bevel setter.

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[rickboone1]

I wouldn't, but for the price they're charging for those you can get a great set of stones for razors, though.

 

[mkornecki]

Thanks for the response. Not to take up to much of your time, but "first page" where? I'm feeling pretty dumb.

Edit. Nevermind, I see it now.

 

[Alum of Potash]

For a razor, you would probably need an 8k-10k "finisher" in addition to those stones. And who knows, maybe that "5k" really is a 3k...

These might get you there cheaper: http://www.woodcraft.com/Search2/Search.aspx?query=ice bear. 1k/6k combo for $38 in particular.

 

[danjared]

The problem isn't the type of hones. The problem is that you want something finer at the end. However, if you only plan on honing razors, those hones are probably overkill for your needs. It would take a lot of razors to wear through those 1" thick stones in your lifetime.