I shaved off an 8k for a long time because I didn't know any different.
Lowest grit stone you can consistently get a shave-ready edge with?
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I consistently get great shaves off 12k.
Coticules are borderline for me. I’ve never had much better than “meh” from a coticule and I’ve had a few. Not chasing anymore. I’m sure that unicorns exist and that others can coax more out of them but all roads end in Arkansas around here. I find them better suited to the role of pre-finisher. In a pinch they would do.
Synth no more than 1 micron. Never felt the need to test the lower boundary as I have higher grit stones available. The 20k Suehiro is too good for me to want to stop short.
Synth no more than 1 micron. Never felt the need to test the lower boundary as I have higher grit stones available. The 20k Suehiro is too good for me to want to stop short.
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I must’ve been very lucky with natural stones.
I’ve never bought one which I couldn’t get a great shave from.
Each one took me a while to decode but I get great shaves from slates, coticule, jnat, Ark, even a couple of stones I found near on beaches and rivers.
I don’t have many stones, two slates, one coti, one jnat, one ark but all feel nice, all cut close, you chaps may have different standards/different faces than me but that’s just my experience.
I don’t know what grit rating they’d approximate.
I’ve used lapping films and a Naniwa 12k in the past, they always felt ‘stingier’, not sure if that equates to more or less sharp.
I’ve never bought one which I couldn’t get a great shave from.
Each one took me a while to decode but I get great shaves from slates, coticule, jnat, Ark, even a couple of stones I found near on beaches and rivers.
I don’t have many stones, two slates, one coti, one jnat, one ark but all feel nice, all cut close, you chaps may have different standards/different faces than me but that’s just my experience.
I don’t know what grit rating they’d approximate.
I’ve used lapping films and a Naniwa 12k in the past, they always felt ‘stingier’, not sure if that equates to more or less sharp.
It's the hand that holds the steel, not the stone underneath.
