What did you hone today?

[Steve56]

Testing out a huge hunk of Nakayama goodness, 210x80x43mm, an ounce short of 4 pounds of it. I wanted a razor that wouldn't be limited and chose a Rugby from my friend Jeremy. Awesome shave though the stone is not flat and still has some grind marks in the surface. I was honing on a spot about 2x5" to miss the stamps just in case.

Cheers, Steve

 

[gumbo]

Blonde horn Wade and Butcher full wedge, 7/8.
First successful wedge honing - man it took a long time to set the bevel, over an hour on the chosera 1k.
Then coticule for another half an hour with dilutions, then for the fun of it I tried a Yellow/Green Thuri slurry on a hard coticule, then an apache strata to finish. Ready for a shave later tonight!

 

[David]

Very nice stone, Steve. It should last 10-12 years.

 

[Steve56]

Thanks David, more like 100-120 years!

Cheers, Steve

 

[totorlekiller]

One more razor today. This one is a Towa frameback that had been rescaled in an unidentified wood.
Honed on a Synthetic progression and finished on Jade and Agates.

 

[Brooksie967]

Steve when you get bored please send my way

 

[Seraphim]

GD honed on....



Well you know what I honed it on....

 

[Jnatcat]

Same routine as on the Le Grelot 76 on that TI Ram and Wolf.
Except I used the Naniwa 10K instead of the Shapton 12K.
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I like that blade

 

[David]

Sometimes things just get out of hand.
I started honing about an hour ago with a clean table and a C1k and somehow it led to this. And the bad thing is I'm still not happy with the edge...

 

[drifter]

I cant wait till I have that problem.

 

[Brooksie967]

David, that's because you aren't using enough jnats.

 

[David]

David, that's because you aren't using enough jnats.

There's a jnat on the table.

 

[gumbo]

Is that a remote-control quadrocopter hone?

Sometimes things just get out of hand.
I started honing about an hour ago with a clean table and a C1k and somehow it led to this. And the bad thing is I'm still not happy with the edge...

 

[David]

Haha. Yeah, it's an airplane Actually. It was a Christmas present from my brother.

 

[eKretz]

Lol, I was wondering if he was rigging up some sort of radio-controlled honing contraption!

 

[totorlekiller]

While my girls were watching the frog prince, I managed to hone 2 Japanese blades.
Bevel set on DMT 600 and King 1K.

Like for the French blades I did earlier this week, I used a synthetic progression from King 1K to Shapton 16K and finished on Agates.

 

[drifter]

Just a little touch up on the Thuri.

 

[Steve56]

Playing with an old eBay razor, shaves well but a good bit of wear and a little frown that's hard to see toward the toe, so it doen't hone well on a wide hone. Rather than brute force it out and wear the blade even further, I grabbed a narrow hone, a little chocolate Nakayama. Poifect!

Cheers, Steve

 

[eKretz]

Steve, do you hone for hire or do you just have a library of razors and stones to rival the size of the Smithsonian?!

 

[Steve56]

I would if anyone wanted, but mostly I have a modest hone collection! In all fairness though, a few i picture are trials and I don't own them or keep them. And most are well under bench size!

Cheers, Steve