Replacing Norton with Naniwa
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Originally Posted by
Euclid440
When I say, It does not matter, I mean between manufactures, Norton and Naniwa.
One could use a progression of interchangeable brands and as long as the progression is polishing the bevel and edge in finer increments, final results would not matter.
One could bevel set with a 1200 DMT, polish on 3um film and finish on a 12k super stone with fine results.
True, bevel setting is key and knowing when a bevel is set, but really there is not much difference in performance on the blade between a King, Chosera, Super Stone, and Norton 1K… and even a DMT 1200 or any quality stone, except for possibly speed and ease of use. The DMT may require more polishing with the subsequent stone, but all will set a bevel just fine.
Short of bevel setting on the curb, which “brand” of stone you use should not matter. Any quality 1K stone will work, as will any brand of middle grit polishing stone.
No-one could shave with a razor and state, That was bevel set with a Chosera 1K!” Except for possibly, David Blaine that hound dog eyed dude is just freaky.
Now having those that swear by their finisher of choice, blind test shave with different razors finished on different finishers, to see if they could tell the difference would be interesting… perhaps a good and fun test for a meet up.
I think we have a very cool challenge for the heavy hitters of SRP. Anyone interested? Even people blindly guessing finisher would be very intriguing I think.