That sentence is NOT saying that the 16K Shapton Glass hone is made from *mixed* grits (Baltic Hand Tools site). It is a typical computer translation (google style translation) of one language to another where grammar rules are different. As I don't speak the original language, I can't say for sure exactly what they are talking about, but I did live in Europe for 13 years and I know that German grammar puts words in a different order than English.
It looks like they are trying to make some point about progression from low grit to high grit, but I'm not quite sure what they are talking about.
Rest assured, Shapton uses a carefully graded grit in each hone... though I do recall reading that they have some glass hones made specifically for tougher steels, or perhaps it was for carbon steel tools?!?!? It would still be single grit, just a different material for the grit and perhaps a different binder.
From that Baltic Hand Tools site we have:
As Utopian points out... ALWAYS go to the horses mouth, as in the Manufacturer.... Websites are not written by skilled woodworkers or razor honers, they are written by web designers and marketing departments. One can only hope a person with knowledge, took the time to read the web page, and in this case, I suspect it's simply a fast and dirty computer translation proof read by a native speaking craftsman who has a poor grasp of the foreign language. Dictum (the business) may have a solid reputation, but Dictum is just a name on a piece of paper used for creating a business entity, not an all knowing, all seeing super craftsman.Quote:
In blade sharpening tests there was nonoticeable difference in sharpness betweena jump 2000 to 16.000 (mixed grit) anda standard sharpening procedure.
Anyone who has suffered through "Chinglish" manuals knows what I mean when I say "computer translation", which ranks right up there with "spell checking". You may have spelled the word "two" correctly, but when you meant "too", spell checking doesn't really help much.
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Kaptain "Grammar grouch" Zero