There are two distinct classes of hones in general use,--one known as the rock hone, on account of its being cut from the natural rock, and the other manufactured.
The most noted are the German water hones, the oil hones from Belgium, and the Swaty hones from Austria.
A great number of honesare produced in different parts of the United States, but few that are really suitable for sharpening razors.
With most hones you may use either water, lather or oil; but do not change from one to the other; whichever you begin with, use that exclusively.
Most of the razor hones used in the United States are imported.
They are a manufactured hone, and in some respects the manufactured hones are superior to the natural stones, in that they are free from seams and uneven spots and perfectly uniform in texture.
The coarsest type of stone which can be included among hones is the bat or scythe stone, a porous fine-grained sandstone used for sharpening scythes and cutters of mowing machines, and for other like purposes.
Hones are used either dry, with water, or with oil, and generally the object to be sharpened is drawn with hand pressure backward and forward over the surface of the hone; but sometimes the stone is moved over the cutting edge.
Hones are generally prepared in the form of flat slabs or small pencils or rods, but some are made with the outline of the special instrument they are designed to sharpen.
Under the head of oilstones or hones proper the most famous and best-known qualities are the German razor hone, the Turkey oilstone, and the Arkansas stone.
The region of the skull, in the temporal fossa back of the orbit, where the great wing of the sphenoid, the temporal, the parietal, and the frontal hones approach each other.
A variety of siliceous slate, of which hones are made; razor stone; Turkey stone; hone stone; whet slate.
He just naturally hones and hones and hones to hand us this nice little bundle of kale, and we're going to accommodate him.
Hones and sharpening stones are very commonly met with in crannogs; they plainly denote that at some period during their habitable existence the occupiers possessed metallic weapons or tools.
Pope was of opinion that Shakespeare's principal object in cultivating literature was to secure an hones independence.
They had also several hones and a fair amount of provisions and stores.
Our well-trained hones seemed to understand the necessity for silence, and, it appeared to me, trod as cautiously as any of the party.
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