Slurry stone with Cnat, hard time....

Fellas,

Just recently acquired a Chinese 12k. She's gorgeous. Iron veins, Tigers stripes. I cut her down to a size a prefer and lapped her dead flat with sic powder. All the way to 500 grit, then sandpaper 1000, then 2000 then coticule slurry dry and metal burnishing. She's burnished like a black Arkansas now. I will post a pic when I get home...

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I actually lapped my slurry stone than I cut off along the way too! So my slurry is as hard and fine as my stone. I didn't realize like a knucklehead it would be hell to create slurry on it.

Gents, if I lap my slurry stone back to say, 220, will that affect the hone? Another piece I cut off produces slurry the way I expected

How long did that take? I would rough up the slurry stone with some 500 grit sand paper you should be fine. You should get a nice edge off that stone. May take a few laps but no big deal. Enjoy.

Starting with the hacksaw, all the way up metal burnishing...I'd say 1.5 hours. lapping was literally like 30 minutes.

The stone was sold to me as a rough cut. Fresh saw marks and nowhere near even. The stone smelled like it was covered in dirt and rain. defenitely smelled like ol Mother Earth.

Sic powder was the best move. The 80 grit got her flat in under 5 minutes. I did my black ark from factory to ready to hone burnish in a half hour.

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This picture is better, much easier to see... The guy selling these is on eBay. Sold to me as a 12,000 — but I think with the level of polishing I can expect a touch more. Who knows, I hear these stones are kinda wonky. I don't know if I would've put in the work to lap it so fine if it was plain looking.

Also, my finished black ark, dry.

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