King 1k inner scratches

[albsat]

Hello,

Although I have red a lot of colorful comments on King 1000, I am finding out that I can set bevels easy on it using the Axmethod. It is the best stone in the world because I don't have any other.

I lap it regularly before shaves and I clean it with a nail brush. However there are some scratches visible when it is wet. Hope they are visible in the photo.

What should you suggest about them?

 

[Herrenberg]

I suggest ignoring them.

 

[psfred]

Shouldn't cause any trouble unless you are trapping coarse grit in the stone and then honing on it. That will cause deep scratches in your bevel too.

What are you using to flatten your King 1k?

I didn't used to like mine at all, but now I find it's quite fast and stays flat a lot better than it used to. Probably learned to use it, lol. Still prefer my Bester 1200, but it's a lot more expensive.

 

[albsat]

Shouldn't cause any trouble unless you are trapping coarse grit in the stone and then honing on it. That will cause deep scratches in your bevel too.

What are you using to flatten your King 1k?

I didn't used to like mine at all, but now I find it's quite fast and stays flat a lot better than it used to. Probably learned to use it, lol. Still prefer my Bester 1200, but it's a lot more expensive.

I use a diamond plate of 400 grit. I have an 1000 grit on the other side but I have never used it.

 

[psfred]

Make sure you don't have some loose coarse grit anywhere. I use 60 grit SiC to flatten hard stones (Washitas, my King Deluxe 300, Cnats) and have to be VERY careful not to ever transfer any of it, even one particle, into my water or sticking to the side of a stone where it can stick to my finger while I'm moving things around, and then end up between stones I'm flattening.

Once coarse piece of grit rolling around on your diamond plate will give you that scratch pattern, and worse, get chunks of stuff stuck to the face of your 1K stone. Makes the bevel look like the stone does....

 

[Gamma]

I don't understand why you lap your 1k before a shave.

Might just be the photo, but it sorta looks like the stone isn't flat, and the end is making contact with the diamond plate but the middle isn't.
Unless the plate is uneven, the stone's working surface should be the same everywhere.