Hone of the day (HOTD)

[Tony]

I bought a little heljestrand razor.

I cleaned it and honed it on a coticule and charnley. It is possible to shave, but it is missing a little sharpness View attachment 10722 View attachment 10723

As you haven’t mentioned another hone I assume that you set the bevel with the coticule. The Heljestrand razors are usually made of a harder steel and setting a bevel can be quite a challenge even with a synthetic hone.
Your problem with the sharpness could stem from a not rightly set bevel.

 

[ehv]

I didn't mention it in the post, but I started with a shapton glass stone 1k, followed by a 2k.

But I think you're right. I'm a little cautious, afraid to remove to much steel. you can even see it on the photo. The bevel is not shining.

I will go back to the 1k.

The razor is well worth restoring.

 

[Tony]

Well those shaptons should be able to do the trick. Check the bevel with the thumbnail test after the bevel set before you go on.

 

[Tony]

Hone of the day is a Naniwa 8k Junpaku Snow White. I have had it for years and I use it to jump to the final finisher. Today the final finisher is a small Thuringian. The razor is a Spanish #14 Ricart 101 which dropped on the doormat yesterday.

 

[ehv]

I'll post this only once. Not razor related, but a hone none the less.

Evo Argon PM blades; these are very hard. Bench stone used DMT blue followed by red.

 

[ehv]

I tried to restore the heljestrand. There was a slight frown in the blade. I had to breadknife it on a DMT bench stone. Then I tried to restore the bevel with a progression of 1k, 2k shapton glass stone, coticule, charnley forest.

A few shots of the bevel after coticule and charnley.

After that I honed a Leresche citadin limineux. That was much easier.

The shave has to show if the hone was succesfull.

 

[Robgtt99]

Today I’ve honed a few
A worldmaster, a T.I., 2 Fili’s (#12 and #14) and a MBO (Belgium)

Full progression (diamond plate only for flattening the stones)

 

[ehv]

Le grelot 71 6/8

First cleaned it up, sanded it to remove spots.

Then shapton 1k, 2k, coticule and ended on a small thuringer.

First time I did it like this. I hope to shave with it tomorrow.

 

[Tony]

Testing some tomo today with some gold dollars

The two tomo were used from 2k to finish on the Narutaki with a medium amount of slurry
And also for a refresh with only a little slurry

the testshave for the grey tomorrow were both very good.
The lighter stone is more a nagura for the prefinishing

 

[Tony]

The gottlieb hammesfahr 8/8” arrived this morning so I did a quick cleanup and honed it with a finish on a Oozuku
There is some devils spit that will be hard to remove, maybe I will just leave it like that
Test shave later today

 

[Kitchen]

What the hell is devils spit?

 

[Tony]

What the hell is devils spit?

That deep rust pitting is surely the work of the devil, it gives the blade an evil look don’t you think.

 

[Kitchen]

It's definitely me, but I really don't know what you mean.
I think this blade looks right taking in account its age. Doesn't it?

 

[ehv]

Restored a pradat brun.

The blade had a frown. I breadknifed it on a DMT diamond stone.

It took me a long time to get a shiny bevel along the complete blade. I used the dmt, shapton glass 1000k, shapton glass 2000k, coticule and finished on the pierre la lune (only for good razors) with a mixture of glycerine, water and dish water soap.

 

[efsk]

It took me a long time to get a shiny bevel along the complete blade.

breadknifing does that.

 

[Tony]

Honed a razor for a member here, synthetics upto 8K followed by a finish on the Oozuku with a light Tomo slurry. Toe and heel Needed some reconstruction work and the shavetest later on turned out fine.

 

[Kamp]

My Koraat ( 6/8 near wedge model "the White queen" with witte micarta scales) felt harsh the last time i used it so time for a refresh. It was still the original edge from Ulrik and i know he use tape so to see if 1 layer is enough i did the sharpie test on my Naniwa 5 k.

Then i started on my Nakayama with Tsustumi black nagura, Mejiro, Koma and tomo.
Second time using this stone, man this is a smooth one, really nice to hone on.
Saturday i will do my testshave to see if It went oke.

 

[ehv]

@Kamp I'll look forward to read about the result.

 

[Tony]

Honed two testrazors for the two Zulu grey hones I received this week.
Both razors have been reset at 8K synthetic level. Finished them with a little slurry diluting this to water on both hones.

 

[shadowman12]

I just did a refresh of my 24kt gold plated Koraat on my Thurigan Yellow/Green finisher. Tomorrow shave test.
It's an odd shape so it was bit trying to figure out to cover the whole bevel on the stone, but I think I made it work for myself.