Thread: 12,000grit chines, Do i dare?

Originally Posted by wyldr

nice, I have a foot of snow and you have the sun...

Try the stones out but try to get a pic of the exact stones your getting. I think some people have had problems with the stones having a line running through it that was more coarse which would damage the blade.

Many of the Chinese hones have those lines in them and they are considered to be a basic characteristic of the hones. I have two such hones with the lines and they have no impact on the honing. I believe that is the experience of most who have used these hones.
All natural hones will vary in quality and characteristics, but I don't think the lines on the hone serve as an indicator of the serviceability of the Chinese hone.

Originally Posted by Utopian

Many of the Chinese hones have those lines them and they are considered to be a basic characteristic of the hones. I have two such hones with the lines and they have no impact on the honing. I believe that is the experience of most who have used these hones.
All natural hones will vary in quality and characteristics, but I don't think the lines on the hone serve as an indicator of the serviceability of the Chinese hone.

good to know,

I stand corrected

Originally Posted by wyldr

good to know,

I stand corrected

And I am willing to stand corrected. If anyone has experience with the lines specifically causing problems, I'd be curious to know about it.

Originally Posted by Utopian

And I am willing to stand corrected. If anyone has experience with the lines specifically causing problems, I'd be curious to know about it.

Never had any line issues here, but I've only tried out 3 of them.

I do recall reading some posts saying some have coarse inclusions in them, though. Not sure if that was in the lines or just in the hone in general. I also haven't seen (or at least haven't noticed) any of those posts recently, so maybe it was a false alarm or isolated incident.

Originally Posted by janivar123

Ok yes it is a good buy... If you dont get a bad one I dont like mine (too harch finish)
but then i can be a little picky

Janivar, I've been somewhat consumed w/ learning a new asagi, but just before it arrived, I too had very sharp but harsh edges from the c12k.

My stone had the black tiger-stiped veins on one side but not the other. I use the striped side for normal honing. I do use slurry to speed things up a bit. On the other side, I drew a diamond shaped cross-hatch pattern with one of the short fat crayons of Crox sold through SRD. By having the crox on the stone, you do edge-leading strokes and avoid the frail edge syndroe of the crox strops. It did smooth things out quite a bit.