Thread: experiments

The other big problem is that at 25x those pictures aren't really even showing the results of the shapton or nakayama no matter what the lighting happens to be. They're showing the results of the hone that the bevel was set with. It takes an awful lot of honing with a nakayama or 30k shapton to hone down past grooves of those sizes.

In the Verhoeven paper he shows 3000x electron microscope photos of edges honed on a variety of stones and pastes, and the grooves from the 0.5 micron chrome oxide are surprisingly small even at that magnification. The Shapton hone that this Japanese site is talking uses abrasive granules about that same size.