Closed Pass Around: Hone Type 15 - Completed

My Experience With The Hone Type 15
The following is the final summary of the good and bad based exclusively on my own experience with the Hone Type 15.

For
  • Excellent design
  • Interesting use of brass material
  • Top notch fabrication
  • Lovely tactile feeling
  • Easy blade loading
  • Ultra mild
  • Fool proof to use
  • Works particularly well with shave oil
  • Can take some pressure (without adverse effect)
Against
  • A little too top heavy
  • A little too inefficient
  • Readily shows signs of wear and tear
Summary
Overall, the Hone Type 15 is a very good razor indeed. As a daily razor it would be really easy to live with.

Postscript
Well done Andrew @Hone and good luck with Hone.
 
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  2. mikebrownington
  3. rowlers
  4. Stacy555
  5. george
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  7. MPH
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We have now passed the half way point. According to Google Maps the Hone has so far traveled 2,579 miles or 4,150 km in metric money.

  1. Bechet
  2. mikebrownington
  3. rowlers
  4. Stacy555
  5. george
  6. Nico1970
  7. MPH
  8. Whosthedaddy
  9. Sir_eider
  10. DevonStan
  11. Dipesh
  12. Geofnay
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Hi Everyone,

Hmmmmm interesting razor.

I wondered what I could possibly add that hasn't been said. Everyone has mentioned how mild it is, and it has even been tested with just oil, so what else is there to be done? Then I got it.... I'd test it under the influence of alcohol!!! If it were going to bite, that's when it would do it!

So, being the trooper that I am I took one for the team and had a couple of large glasses of red with dinner. Nom nom nom. Then put the kids to bed and got cracking....

It's heavy. VERY heavy. I like that, because I'm a man (in my own mind at least) but I did worry what might happen to my sink if I dropped it (Guess this somewhat conflicts with the whole 'man' thing??? :)) . Luckily the handle is strangely grippy and it never felt like slipping.

The head is big, and it is wide. The bars stick out quite far, and it is quite domed. Here a couple of pics to compare with my Feather AS-D2, PILS and mongoose.

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The discolouring of the metal seems a little odd. Generally it looks fine, but there are specific areas with greater discolouration. I don't like this personally. Maybe if it were cleaned it would remain a uniform colour? I would want to know this before buying. Pics of what I mean:
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To the shave. Even after reading the previous report I thought I would stick to a bit of lather to start. Well I say a bit..... I used Fitjar..... I used way too much Fitjar .....and ended up with LOTS of lather, probably enough for everyone reading this tonight. Obviously I didn't want to waste it so I slapped it on until I resembled a snowman, stuck in a Gillette 7 o'clock yellow and plowed on. Now, as we all know YMMV but I was impressed. I didn't get Nico1970's experience at all. It felt fine. I quickly ploughed through 3 very well lubricated passes with no drama, no pain, no weepers...... Nothing ...except a 95% BBS. The result was very satisfactory. I am impressed.

Now.... There's one thing that is stopping me love this razor....and I can't figure what it is. On my face it feels odd...well at least 'different'. I am not sure if it is the wide safety bars, or the domed shape, but somehow I can feel it more on my face than my other razors. It's not painful or unpleasant and maybe I'll get used to it..... Who knows.

Anyway day one over, and its a cracking start for the Hone. Well done @Hone.

Oh...... And also I broke my duck....this was my first ever pass around, so thanks @honeand @riverun for the opportunity.

More tomorrow, or Thurs.
 
@MPH thanks for a great write up, as others have said great descriptions and detail. I'm really glad you enjoyed it, looking forward to hearing more.

Its great to see the variety in tastes and reactions, and I'm really grateful to everyone for being so open to trying the Type 15 and what it is about, the difference in approaches and what people find works for them is really interesting. Thank you all.
 
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