“I have give or take 100 cotis”
I feel totally inadequate now LOL
I feel totally inadequate now LOL
Dressing down Finishing stones
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I've been having good results with 240 and 400 s/c wet dry on my stones lately, but that gets me thinking of a use for my Sharp Pebble 400/1k...
~doug~
Good to know. I have a King laying around doing nothing but not anymore.
Steve56
Ask me about shaving naked!
Just for funsies, try rubbing a dry hone with a dry Mikawa nagura as a final finishing step.
Only time I use SIC is when I have to lap an Ark, Charley, Llyn Id, etc. The stuff can embed in softer stones, it can even embed into steel. So I keep it for super hard stones only, and I finish polish them on W/D which seems to clear any embedded particulate.
Slate, most slate, I don't bring to a high polish. A lot of slate fairly inconsistent so it's not unusual for a slate hone to be 'ok' then not, and then 'ok' again, and so on. I usually take slates up to 325x on WD, or a worn diamond plate. I relegate slates, usually, to mid-range work and I find they do their best that way. Even Eschers don't get more than a 4-600x finish.
I used to finish polish stones with a BBW - had a 10x3x1 slab and it was pretty good for that purpose. Thing is, I found purple slurry running off a few recently lapped/polished stones. When drying they stained paper towel a recognizable purple - they were not purple stones, white, yellow, green...so definitely from the BBW.
So I stopped using the BBW for that. I use them in the kitchen sometimes, the feedback is great with heavier blades and they do a good job of bumping edges on paring knives.
Slate, most slate, I don't bring to a high polish. A lot of slate fairly inconsistent so it's not unusual for a slate hone to be 'ok' then not, and then 'ok' again, and so on. I usually take slates up to 325x on WD, or a worn diamond plate. I relegate slates, usually, to mid-range work and I find they do their best that way. Even Eschers don't get more than a 4-600x finish.
I used to finish polish stones with a BBW - had a 10x3x1 slab and it was pretty good for that purpose. Thing is, I found purple slurry running off a few recently lapped/polished stones. When drying they stained paper towel a recognizable purple - they were not purple stones, white, yellow, green...so definitely from the BBW.
So I stopped using the BBW for that. I use them in the kitchen sometimes, the feedback is great with heavier blades and they do a good job of bumping edges on paring knives.
Christ on a bike!(Perhaps you'll come over to the dark side once that new dama Toyama needs a polish...
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I’ll never polish the Toyama. I’m going cut into as many prime ribs as I can with that thing and hope it turns into a rainbow.Perhaps you'll come over to the dark side once that new dama Toyama needs a polish...
I’ll never polish the Toyama. I’m going cut into as many prime ribs as I can with that thing and hope it turns into a rainbow.
Oh yeah, that's another option that'd look wicked!
Cooked chicken is extremely good for it, this is a Mazaki petty I have which was shiny polished before, and then I used it to carve a chicken. Light had gone a bit by the time I got round to taking a pic, but you get the idea...
(Sorry for derailing your thread OP. I shall stop now!)
