Your uncommon finishing hones

[linguist]

here we go.
this is a soft hone. 6*2,5" not a thuringian or any common hone. i found it at a hardware store. it is o par with my vintage coticules.

 

[SliceOfLife]

Don't really use the green one. Fine but slow.

Tan one acts like a coti, leaves an edge like a thuri. I suspect whatever it is, it has a composition similar to an EXTREMELY soft Thuri.

 

[Disburden]

Does #2 pencil graphite on a paddle strop count as a finisher?

 

[SliceOfLife]

Since graphite is a nonabrasive dry lube for steel parts... I'mma vote no. Whatever you use prior to it is your finisher... that's a stropping aid.

 

[paco664]

a piece of candy jasper..... very fine finisher on par with a JNAT.... *(ignore the rotweiller hair on it...)

 

[fccexpert]

None, I don't use a finishing hone as I have found it to be completely unnecessary.

 

[Disburden]

None, I don't use a finishing hone as I have found it to be completely unnecessary.

What do you hone with?

 

[professorchaos]

None, I don't use a finishing hone as I have found it to be completely unnecessary.

Huh?

 

[Doc226]

None, I don't use a finishing hone as I have found it to be completely unnecessary.

The last stone you hone on is your finishing stone. The only way not to have a finishing stone is not to hone at all.

 

[Alum of Potash]

To the OP, Mr. linguist: I just wish I could find stones like that at my local American hardware store. Enjoy, you're very lucky in this regard.

Here's a shot of a piece of modern Ark-in-Saw's finest. Once it is fully lapped (I'm hoping that dry emery cloth will do the trick in my lifetime), it promises to be a very good hone.

Edit: my apologies for not using a tripod and for the lack of perspective correction in the attached shot.

 

[Legion]

I still want to know what the green thing in the OP is.

 

[linguist]

i have sent this stone to some honemeisters(internationally) to check it. after that i bought 40 pieces from the hardware store and sold them to Turkish straight users.
there are 3 left for myself. i really don't know where they're mined. some says turkish slate, others say it is called russian stone.

 

[Legion]

Interesting. What is the procedure for use? Slurry, or just water? Are they marketed as razor hones, or for knives? I've not seen one like that before.

 

[linguist]

it produces white slurry and it doesn't dull the razor like coticule. i tried one stone honing method and got sucsess from bevel set to finishing. i also tried with oil and washed it like my other coticules. the seller doesn't know so much about the stones and sell them for kitchen knives.

 

[fccexpert]

The last stone you hone on is your finishing stone. The only way not to have a finishing stone is not to hone at all.

I hone on a Norton 8K water stone. Once the razor is honed, I strop on cloth and leather (as I do before every shave) and shave. You cannot have finishing stone if you do not have a different starting hone. The use of the word finishing implies a different beginning, that's how English works.

 

[Doc226]

I hone on a Norton 8K water stone. Once the razor is honed, I strop on cloth and leather (as I do before every shave) and shave. You cannot have finishing stone if you do not have a different starting hone. The use of the word finishing implies a different beginning, that's how English works.

Not true at all. A coticule is a perfect example. One stone, start with a coticule and finish with a coticule.

 

[life2short1971]

David, The OP's stone looks like the Turkish oilstone McWolf has on eBay right now or did the other day.

 

[davew]

Most of the turkish oilstones I've seen look like they're grainy (like dark wood grain, not gritty) or could split or break off in different places. They're just fragile looking. That looks like something else to me. Like someone said above, I wish I could find stones like that at the hardware store.

 

[davew]

a piece of candy jasper..... very fine finisher on par with a JNAT.... *(ignore the rotweiller hair on it...)

Very nice!

 

[virreslirre]

Heres my mystery-hone. Someone once told me it was a la lune special stone. But im not so sure, i cant seem to get a good edge from it, i tried it with water and about twelve laps, left me with a very hars edge.. Maybe i should try oil? Sorry for the linking, im on my iphone..

http://m.flickr.com/#/photos/84575200@N02/7748806454/in/photostream/