Thread: Paste finish vs stone finish

After finishing on a Thuri I will use a small homemede paddle with Chrome ox, about a half dozen laps and then a very thorough stropping,

I finish from 1K up using Nagura and finally a very fine Asagi. My last step is 10 laps on hard felt using Carbon Boron Nitrate 0.125 micron. The edges that I get are the smoothest and keenest that I have ever used!

I voted mostly stones because CBN in not a paste. I hate diamond or any other kind of paste!

Take Care,
Richard

I have experimented with diamond paste, spray and with chrom-ox and gotten good results with what little I've used them. I went on a mission to get to the point where I could get really good edges off of the finishing stone alone and I got there. Once there I found that even though the pastes may offer more improvement I am happy with the edges I get off of the stones and an unpasted strop of linen/leather.

It really depends upon what new toys I have to play with. Currently I will be trying the 1.0 micron Boron carbide and the 0.125 CBN on leather paddle strops. I like variety!

Randy, you are a nut. Let me know how this works, I might be a crazy as you!

Its all rocks.

I get edges I'm happy with from my La Veinette coti most of the time, occasionally do some laps on the Naniwa 12k or other cotis.
For quickness sometimes or if I have some stuborn steel I will finish on TI rasoir paste on a tight strop. This paste always gives a delightfully smooth edge quite similar to that of a coticule.

Rocks rock?

Then finishing the work of a fine rock with a pasted paddle would be like putting ketchup on spaghetti slathered with a carefully crafted red sauce? Maybe so.

And the gentlemanly debate continues. And we grasshoppers hang on every word of the meisters.

Whatever, I definitely need to buy more stuff.

never used paste until recently i thought i would try cerium more with the thought for when i'm too lazy to retouch on my arkansas and i found it harsh compared to the stone whether a touch up or finishing,then i thought i'd try .3 chromium and .1 iron for the same purposes but the chromium feels harsher compared to the stone and even just a few laps followed by the iron is still harsh,now i'm testing just the iron by itself to see what that's like after the stone and for touch ups

I'm really surprised. I've only recently come back from a year, year and a half being too distracted with other forums and hobbies; but when I left, EVERYBODY was talking about pastes.

Pastes were where it was at.

Now they seem to have gone somewhat out of fashion.