Originally Posted by
boshane
Hope no one minds bumping an old thread :ziplip:
I received a 30k Shapton for Christmas (I was floored, honestly), and just gave 15-20 featherlight (too light?) strokes with tape to a SchoenBurg that was previously finished with a 16k shapton and CrOx.
This being my first try with the stone and my first attempt at microbevels I wasn't expecting much, and in fact I didn't really notice any difference at all in the edge, in fact it may have degraded slightly. I noticed Tom mentioned using less strokes and more, I didn't see an update on the 200+ stroke test, but I'm guessing that's more to the tune of what I needed-- I saw absolutely no change in slurry color, either my strokes were simply too light out of nervousness or there wasn't enough of them. This in contrast with the 16k which shows abrasion after only a few strokes.
I was going to try again later starting from the 8k and doing a proper go at it without CrOx this time of course, but was curious if there was any new insight into this technique, especially since recently "overhoning" has been called into question the scene may have changed.