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    I gave a CD a swipe with both sides of the stone & the white side left coarser scratches.
    On steel they both leave such a mirror polish its hard to tell but if you scratch plastic with it its more obvious.
    I've honed a whole bunch of razors with it over the last 12 months & always used the white side as 3k. I've retired it now as I found it too soft for the amount of work I do but that was how I used it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by onimaru55 View Post
    I gave a CD a swipe with both sides of the stone & the white side left coarser scratches.
    On steel they both leave such a mirror polish its hard to tell but if you scratch plastic with it its more obvious.
    I've honed a whole bunch of razors with it over the last 12 months & always used the white side as 3k. I've retired it now as I found it too soft for the amount of work I do but that was how I used it.
    I'll have to remember that. I'll be double checking any hones I buy in future.
    Lucky you went by what the box read and not the stone...That and experience probably played a hand no doubt.

    It's almost too soft for my small amount of use too, I think. It'll do me for a while though. Thanks for that mate.


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    No problemo amigo. The upside on being so soft is that they cut fast & they're easy to lap but they're really better suited to knife sharpening IMHO
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    Yesterday I did a little more lapping on my Kasumi hone on some finer grit W&D and then gave my Dovo I.MoP another touch up, since it seems I may have been using the 3k side like an 8k.
    I can now say with complete certainty that you CAN shave off a 3k, but an 8k finished off with a c12k is far smoother. Thanks for pointing out that little fault of the Kasumi to mark the stone wrong, but the box correctly Oz. It makes a world of difference. I won't go into my honing experiences that should have told me this was the case. Hindsight is 100% and I should have seen it at the time. As testing on the "8000" was always a tad off compared to the "3000" and my patience only went so far before I decided it was as good as I could get it.


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    I bet a lot of Kasumi owners are doing the reverse pyramid
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    I know I was! Not any longer now though...Reminds me I might put a review up on that Everten site to say just that.


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    Yeah they'll love that
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    Damn. I saw the sticker but the stamps on the stones were opposite so i thought no one is that stupid that they are going to stamp a stone wrong. I might change that to who would be stupid enough to see both and assume soemthing was correct. That would be me.

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    Guess they thought it was cheaper to put stickers on the box than re-stamp the hone.
    BTW Nice honest review there Mick
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    That CD trick is an awesome idea. I'll have to remember that.
    Thanks Oz
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