Three Stone Set from Best Sharpening Stones

[ScoutHikerDad]

Some of you may remember me posting about getting the 8x3 surgical black from BSS a few weeks ago. I took a chance on a less-expensive vendor (nothing against Dan's; they're an awesome family business that I hope to buy from when funds are a little looser). Anyway, with some flattening and burnishing work on my part, it's giving up some awesome edges, and I'm very satisfied with the purchase.

Well, my neighbor whom I posted about getting into straights was so taken by the whole arkansas honing demo at my kitchen table, he promptly went home and ordered the whole set, all 10X3X1/2: a soft, a hard, and a surgical black.
It could have been the Knob Creek guiding his debit card out of his wallet-I wasn't there.

Anyway, they were "mostly flat" (which is about like horseshoes and hand grenades for arkies lol!). There are a few slivers of daylight showing under the ruler here and there. So the work begins:

As you can see, I've already gridded them with a sharpie (harder to remove), and I just got in a batch of fresh belts from Pop's. I plan to flatten the soft and the hard maybe a little with the DMT 325, and maybe some to finish on a 400 or 600 grit belt if it feels like it's going to eat the DMT for lunch.

The surgical black I will treat like I did my 3x8, and lap it on a flat platen with 2x72 belts once flat from 325 and a 400 grit belt. 600, 800, 1000, and 2000 should get it in pretty good shape. And I also got in a bottle of .5 micron diamond spray that I can further burnish it with along with the usual progression of tools and knives.

I expect these 10x3's to be more of a bear to get truly flat and lapped-we'll see. I'll show you the finished results hopefully before next year! Aaron