Newspaper? Just plain old A4 printer paper?
I think the A4 has more substance, and is better. Newspaper may be too thin and disintegrate under there...
Newspaper? Just plain old A4 printer paper?
Haha! ,,yeah,, ya' got me! If I only took the time to calculate the thousands I've spent over the past couple of years on these beasts ( instead of lapping films) I'd probably cringe.I really don't want to know just how staggering the number is.
I was planning on getting only the 3um and 1um, then going crox pasted balsa or cotton strop.
Bingo!
I've been using a piece of 24" X 3" tempered float glass from a med. cab.where I can line up my 1 and my 5 at the same time. I also just snagged a 25 pack ( 6X9 ) of both 5 and 1 micron for $11.25 a pack. Seemed reasonable enough at .50 a sheet,, and I get two out of each.
Where did you buy the film?
Right here, they have .3,1,2,5,9,12 &15. I've done several wedges lately with the same strip of film that I've done quite a few other razors on. I wouldn't go to these to set a bevel,, but they work just fine in my experience.
Check Barneykillers response to his wedge I just did for him. Smooth and quiet according to him. I liked it too!
http://www.specialized.net/Specialized/catalog/searchresults.aspx?keywords=lapping+films
I have played with spritzing the films with 0.5um diamond/chromox blend. Results were inconclusive.
Right here, they have .3,1,2,5,9,12 &15. I've done several wedges lately with the same strip of film that I've done quite a few other razors on. I wouldn't go to these to set a bevel,, but they work just fine in my experience.
Check Barneykillers response to his wedge I just did for him. Smooth and quiet according to him. I liked it too!
http://www.specialized.net/Specialized/catalog/searchresults.aspx?keywords=lapping+films
I was thinking more on terms of replicating the scratch patterns of a natural stone on your films rather than the search for the laser sharp edge.
A single nagura on Japanese sites run about 20-30 before shipping, and if you spend more than gosenyen shipping is free.
If you could approximate a jnat feel with 1.00 sheet of film and a 30.00 nagura you would win the Nobel Hone prize!! Although no one would believe you.
I've done several wedges lately with the same strip of film that I've done quite a few other razors on. I wouldn't go to these to set a bevel,, but they work just fine in my experience.
Check Barneykillers response to his wedge I just did for him. Smooth and quiet according to him. I liked it too!
Why not simply use the nagura on a C12K?I was thinking more on terms of replicating the scratch patterns of a natural stone on your films rather than the search for the laser sharp edge.
A single nagura on Japanese sites run about 20-30 before shipping, and if you spend more than gosenyen shipping is free.
If you could approximate a jnat feel with 1.00 sheet of film and a 30.00 nagura you would win the Nobel Hone prize!! Although no one would believe you.
Why not simply use the nagura on a C12K?
Or, as I've surmised in the past, simply stop at the lapping film level that best approximates the scratch pattern left by the JNat?
Perhaps we need to collaborate. I font have a JNat. Maybe I'll hone up a GD and send it to you for final finishing on a JNat (NO moron powders after though!). You send it back to me to look at under the scope and we see what we can come up with.