Thread: First Washita and Questions

Arks will eat a DMT or any plate. 60 grit loose Silicone Carbide and a steel cookie sheet will get you flat. Once flat you can run up the grits quickly.

You can buy an assortment of grits from Got Grit.com for about $15, ¼ oz of each (60 -500 grit). You will use more 60 grit than others. Start with a teaspoon and bit of water, add another teaspoon when you feel it stop cutting.

Cookie sheet on the floor, your body weight over the stone. If you stay with the 60 grit and grid the stone with a sharpie it goes fairly quickly 15-20 minutes.

Take it to 500 grit and test it. Run a couple knives or plane blades on it first, before a razor to smooth it out a bit.

As said, you can finish one side at 600 and the other finer on Wet & Dry, for a “Progression”

An old cheap file works great for beveling the edges. Don’t use your diamond plate, unless you want to buy a new one.

Good news, you only have to do this once. Nice looking stone. I use Smiths or Ballistol on fine Arks, Windex on courser stones depending on the finish I am going after. I like the courser stones for tools and knives. For razors I do a synthetic progresson to 8k then an Ark.