Thread: Natural hone for setting the bevel?

Where've Mike Blue when you need an answer? Tc

Originally Posted by eKretz

I would like to see a reference (preferably with test methodology) regarding steel being hardened over 67 Rc. I have never heard of steel getting harder than about 66 Rc. Steel this hard would likely be nearly useless and very chippy.

Here is one example of HRC66-68 steel (sadly not a razor): https://www.roselli.fi/epages/rosell...archString=Hrc

As per threads topic:
I am using following naturals for bevel corrections:
1. Japanese Amakusa Red (i got my 25cm x 5cm x for 5 euros on ebay). You can make a slurry by same piece of amakusa or by diamont plate. Get a wonderfull jnat for removing chips and preventing new chips while honing. Slurry dies break down which allows you to bridge high grid range. Have heared that some amakusas may have sand inclusions in them, my one does not.
2. Cretan hone. I have a white version (should be the most coarse). Extremly fast stone, turns the slurry black very quickly. Here again the slurry can be made by a small piece of cretan or by diamond card. Cretans slurry does also break down (nearly to a prefinish stage). My only concern with my version: it is not good for microchip removal and sometime creates new chipping (perhaps its my poor honing stroke, dont know).

Edit:
I‘ve also tried one „La Pyrenees“ but somehow this stone seems to be very pressure sensitive (lowering a pressure reduces significantly the speed by switching from sharpening to polishing) which is too strong to my taste. Apart from that my version gets a glizy surface after short honing and again goes from sharpening to polishing...
But maybe I‘ve just not yetfifured out how zo use this stone...

Regards
Philipp