Thread: Lapping up my first 12k hone

P-nat? (poli-nat)
E-nat? (euro-nat)
ROE-nat? (rest of europe or non-Belgium nor German)

it ain't 12k. Let's attempt to begin to try to stop perpetuating the misnomer*.

DRAG some dang steel across that thing! As a shave test is to a final edge, a stone can only be tested with steel. Don't you have some "second-class" or "problem child" razors to play with? need one?

Looks good from here. I hope to do some happy honing today. I found my sink already. I knew about where it was...


*of ascribing any grit-rating to naturals of course. If i had the equipment, i'd rate natural stones by the extremes of the range of finishes they would produce on a sample of razor steel. IOW, slurry it up work a bevel over with good pressure-then measure the resultant finish (however these things are done). Then clean it up and work to the best cleanest final finish one could muster--and measure that finish. There'd be your range for that particular natural , and your technique/skills (on that particular slab of steel). Then that range could be compared to manufactured stones "for reference" if one still desired.

sorry for the drift, but the first load of java just kicked in...