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I'm thinking though when your having trouble with getting a real sharp coti edge. Like I had. This could help until the person learns the stone.get it as sharp as you can then let the paste bring up the keenness.
Mine was actually cheap. I got it off the bay. Pretty sure the guy who sold it wanted to unload it because it wasn't a great finisher. It is much closer to being a royal pain as a finisher requiring loads of water and crazy light stokes and even then only leaving a passable finish. Put a heavy slurry on it though and don't be shy about the pressure and it will cut with DMT 1200 speed! Then I dilute down to water only and the razor is ready to go to any number of much finer cotis for water only finishing. I have lots of good finishing cotis, but I only have one drag race coti.
Ha! Yeah mine did still feel like a coti edge. But i could feel it was there. I got a little bite. But if you give it the full pasted strop treatment, it will start getting a little harsh. Not as bad as if you used another stone, but you can feel it. I'm gonna play a little more. Maybe just 5 laps this time after the coti. 12 was a little too much.
Oh that would be a terrible idea!
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For a long while the Chosera 1K was my favorite bevel setter until I got the Shapton 1.5K. I recently purchased the Shapton 5K and like the 1.5 even more.
Ha ! Have you got rid of all your synths as well?
As wierd as it may sound the Shapton 1.5 is faster and the Chosera 1K, both are excellent bevel setters though.
I use Shapton Pros 1k, 1.5k & 2K to set bevels.
If you could only have the 1k or 1.5k for bevel. Which would you chose? I will be following it with a coti and that's it.
1K if I could only have one.
Not me, I prefer the Chosera 1k over the Shapton Pro 1k hands down. The Shapton is a little harder bound so it stops cutting and doesn't shed the dull grit fast enough for razors at razor pressures IMO. It's awesome for knives though. The Shapton does a little better if you soak it for a while before use but so does the Chosera, which makes it even that much better than the Shapton IMO.
I assume they are pretty much the same thing correct?