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11-04-2011, 10:42 AM #22
I've used many different stones on many different razors and for the avg user all seem to do just fine. You will find variances in both stones and razors that don't fit what happened last time, nature of the beast.
However I have come across a few issues that for me always stand true...
King 6k stones don't like stainless steel at all, gunk up really fast.
Shapton Glass stones lean toward stainless and gunk up faster with carbon blades
A few others flip flop around but that is a long battle and most people don't sharpen enough to notice these differences.
The above tests that I did at home and at gatherings was using a combination of razors and kitchen knives of various makes and steels. How any one stone acts verses any one knife or razor can be interpreted differently than how I did, again nature of the beast.
How will your stones handle a life of only doing razors will differ from my stones because of my use with all kinds of knives. A 3" razor sharpened with just the weight of the blade vs a 300mm gyuto with AS steel (that eats stones of all kinds) wears a stone very differently. So any comparisons would have to be tested in alot more controlled circumstances.
Trust me I have been looking for this answer for as long as I have been sharpening knives and everytime I think I have an angle on things something comes along and undoes my past work.
All I can say is that hard steel eats soft stones, and hard stones can trash your edge in a single miss step... After that it's all up in the air