Thread: MN_SRP Get together Pics and Vid.

Thanks for posting all these pics, Sean. Great to get a little video, too. We'll have to take more video next time. It's too bad we can't to that every week!

Chris L

Some of you watching the video of Randy honing on a Shapton 4k ceramic on glass stone may wonder why the swarf looks brownish; we used a cut piece of barber hone to create a slurry on the 4k. Why? On coarser grit stones, a colored slurry made with most any type of higher grit stone or hone (Belgian Blue, Coticle, Barber Hone, etc) provides a great visual aid when honing. It's a great training tool or great when honing blade styles that you're less familiar with. The colored slurry allows for better viewing of what the water/blade on the hone is or isn't doing (ultimately what YOU are or are not doing in ensuring the blade is in contact with the stone through the entire pass). As long as the grit of the rubbing stone is finer than the hone, you're good to go with using this method to better see the blade's contact with the stone/hone.

I'm sure we all wish we could have been there! Can someone post a "who's who" for the pictures?

Must have been fun.

Looks like you guys had a lot of fun.... I wish I could have made the trip, it's only about an 8 hr drive from Winnipeg but alas..... no dice this time.

So, can we get some names to the faces?

Christian

I can help with the photos; here is a key for the still photos below the video. We'll call the first still photo under the video "picture #1":

Picture #1: L to R - Dusty79 (Dusty), Clehman67 (Charles), TedMeissner (Ted), stpaultom (Tom) beige coat, Chris L (Chris), Harrisonfan (Zac), Utopian (Ron) red plaid shirt.

Picture #2: L to R - FOREGROUND: Terry Knipschield (phenomenal knives. Check out his WEBSITE
Foreground to the right of Terry is Randydance (Randy Tuttle), BACKGROUND: Dusty, Ted and Charles facing each other, Tom, Chris, Ron, Zac

Picture #3: L to R - Chris, Dusty (back to camera), Mike Blue, Zac, Tom, Terry.

Picture #4: One of Terry Knipschield's folding knives.

Picture #5: A portion of Chris' Hone collection on the left side and a portion of Ron's hone collection on the right side.

Picture #6: Mike Blue with one of his swords as Ted looks on.

That should help. Christian, guys, I'm telling you, If you are within a day's drive radius or you have a bunch of frequent flier miles, you have to come over to this next one. The venue is perfect, Mike and Terry's knowledge and their willingness to share is precious; I could see this developing into a well organized teaching and learning affair. There's a hotel about 1/2 mile from Mike's place making for a great weekend out of it for the longer distance guys. Ok, ok, I'm getting ahead of myself!

Chris L

Thanks for coming back and putting the names to the pics here Chris. I intended on doing it but had not gotten around to it. And I am very glad to see you put the link up for Terry's website as I was going to ask you if you had it.

Remember to check out Chris' post on this get together over at:

http://straightrazorpalace.com/gener...ics-names.html

if you haven't already.

Sean

Chris, you (?) were asked at the end of the video if you found that the shaptons were faster than the nortons, and you were just about to answer when the video cut off. don't leave us hanging!

Hey Lee. It's been about 9 months since I've owned the Norton 4/8, but my memory hopefully still serves me well; The Shapton 4k is a smoother surface than the 4k Norton which in comparison is quite porous. With your eyes closed, going by tactile feel only, IMO the Shapton 4k surface is somewhat more similar to the Norton 8k side.

I'd love to do a side by side comparison, but since I don't own the Norton any longer I can't

I would say it's close but I think a freshly lapped Shapton 4k cuts faster and cleaner. Randy had never used the Shapton 4k until Saturday; he's a Norton man to date. He did say that he thought the Norton 4k had more feedback; this makes sense to me since it's porous. The Norton sounds more agressive while the Shapton is quietly taking off steel.

I hope that helps.

Lynn would be the one that would lend an expert's opinion on the difference in cutting speed between the two.

Chris L

Thanks, Chris

I caught some of Ron's discussion about looking at stones through a steromicroscope that he brought along. The superficial differences really do pop up when you have enough magnification. It makes me want to buy one now.