Thread: What is the more important stone ???

Originally Posted by Alembic

Glen,

So would you say that you would invest more in your bevel setting hones than your finishers, or does it not matter that much which bevel setting hones you acquire as long as the bevel setting process is performed correctly and completely?

David

I'm not Glen, but this brings up something I have always found interesting about this topic. A person with HAD could buy one of each: Naniwa 220, 400,1000,2000 and Shapton 220,500,1000, 2000 or one Shapton 30K. The cash expenditure would be roughly the same.

Looking at it that way there's no reason not to have a pretty deep bench of low grit hones if the ratio of dollars spent to edge quality received means anything. I'm not suggesting that you need a whole pile of bevel setters (or do you Glen ?), just that its not very productive to ignore them in favor of the high dollar finishing stones. This assumes that you are doing more than just touching up formerly shave ready razors.