I have a shapton glass 500 that I use to get chipping like that out. I hone it out, draw it through some wood to rip off the foil and then go onto a 1k followed by the rest.
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I have a shapton glass 500 that I use to get chipping like that out. I hone it out, draw it through some wood to rip off the foil and then go onto a 1k followed by the rest.
Naniwa Combination Stone, CS-101/510, grit: 120/1000 | knivesandtools.co.uk
What do you think of this one? It's Naniwa so quality's gonna be fine, price is also reasonable.
Is 120 grit really different than 500? I'm given to understand that coarser grits are tougher so they remove materials faster, so I can hone remove nicks with 120 somehow faster than the time it would take me to hone with 500?
Yes.
I am a more-or-less ham-handed talentless dolt and, thank you very much SRP, I am honing my own razors and getting the smoothest, longest-lasting and irritation free shaves ever in 50 years. Granted it took 250 shaves and a lot of frustration honing blades needing more than minor touch ups.
I read all I could read, watched all the videos I could watch and asked all I could ask. Altogether it wasn't worth nearly as much as a Saturday and Sunday learning hands-on from experienced honers, who, I might add, were willing to teach, answer questions and demonstrate. It also helped that there were many microscopes on site to examine results in real time. Nothing beats this to get you where you want to go in my opinion.
Yes you will get the nicks out quicker but leave very deep striations from a 120 stone that you then have to hone all the way out. It wouldn't take that long to just remove the nicks with a 1k and at least when you're done you can move on. When learning it is a better idea to go slowly and less aggressive as you can easily botch it with something aggressive. A 1k stone used properly can be quite quick.
Treatment is optional on strops right?
Ever since I got used to stropping, I could feel the difference between unstropped and stropped blade, so without any treatment I get a desirable sharpness on a blade just stropping by itself
Well, 3000 grit happened to be very weak, I could hone for minutes, using slight equal pressure, keeping the spine on the stone, but the nick was sitting just there!
I have decided to get this stone: Naniwa Combination Stone, CS-101/510, grit: 120/1000 | knivesandtools.co.uk
It is 120/1000 grit but I am buying it primarily for the 1000 grit side ;)
Then I will work from 1000 to 3000 to 10000 hoping to get rid of those cursed nicks
Daily stropping is done on a strop without treatment and pasted strops used for touching up edges that are starting to lag. An edge will improve after shaving with just your plain strop. Check out Gssixgun on YouTube and his breadknifing video. It is not true breadknifing and just a raised spine till the nicks are very nearly oit then work back to razor flat on the stone to finish on the 1k. Helps make it quicker. Good luck with your honing
Thanks a lot to all of you, I will see what will happen in the upcoming months and post my experiences :)