Thread: a hone for lynn and i need a bit of help

ok im sure lynn will get a kick out of this one. i picked this hone up this weekend from an antique mall how ever you spell it lol. i got it for a whopping 5 bucks. now i have no idea what grit this is and i was wondering if anyone out there can give me a hand figuring it out. i lapped it with 400 wet/dry. it feels alot more corse then the norton 8k i got. so please tell me what you all think.

thanks jason

It's an S.R. Droescher barber hone.

thank you for the reply any idea on hte grit and was this a good deal

I don't know about the grit of the stone but I'm pretty sure S.R. Droescher stopped making razors around 1924. I just got one I'm hoping to restore.

that would be pretty cool to have a razor and a hone from the same company

Well it's a fairly fine looking barber hone, so I'm going to hazard a guess that it's in the 6000-8000 grit range? It doesn't look too fine in the close-up, but I suspect that that might have something to do with only being finished on 400 grit as opposed to a higher grit.

If you have anything higher than 400 wet/dry I would try and out and see if it smooths out the surface a little more. I finished my Swaty on 1500 grit (after going through coarser grits at first) and it came out much smoother then when it was finished on something around 400.

Except for the chip at the top (which really won't affect it's use at all) it looks to be in excellent condition, so yeah, $5 sounds like a great price to me!

i can get just about any grit i need i have some higher grit but they are cut in quarted for restoring razors maybe time to hit them up again and thank for the info

You might shoot Sticky a PM with a link to this thread. He collects barber hones and he may have used one like it and have an idea of where it would fit in grit wise. Nice barber hone you have there. Doroscher was a quality distributor of barber supplies and didn't have any junk. I have one of their razors and it is darn good.

If you want to flip it I may be interested. By the way, you're at Scott AFB? I'm originally from Madison County IL just came pass there on I-64 last week.

I've got one of those. It's one of the many Swaty clones and if I recall correctly, I think mine performed pretty much identically to Swatys.