Thread: Arkansas: Translucent or Surgical Black?

Originally Posted by Pedigree

Thank you! I ended up getting an 11 x 4 primitive cut surgical black from Dan's Whetstones for $78 + shipping.

how do you chamfer primitive ? i am jealous!!

Chamfering a primitive is very easy. Get a chunk of old garden hose and wrap it with sand paper, it will easily mold into all the odd spaces.

Originally Posted by Rugger007

Chamfering a primitive is very easy. Get a chunk of old garden hose and wrap it with sand paper, it will easily mold into all the odd spaces.

What about one of those sponge-like sanding blocks?

Originally Posted by biglou13

how do you chamfer primitive ? i am jealous!!

Not sure yet. I have some wet/dry sandpaper and a DMT 325

Originally Posted by Pedigree

Not sure yet. I have some wet/dry sandpaper and a DMT 325

I think you will render your 325 dmt useless on and ark. I usually use granite slab plus grit, Or grit plus wet dry sand paper. I’m thinking start there, then the detail work with cut strips of rubber hose and sandpaper like rugger007 said. Part of me thinks that as long as the wavy edge is below the he honing surface you would have to do less detail work I hope some makes a video of chamfering a primitive edge ark / stone.

Holy crap! That’s monster stone. Definitely give any and all lubricants a try as well as burnishing to varying degrees. Really easy to walk it back to a 400-600 grit finish. Also be careful not to slap the stone with the razor come off the spine during a stroke, the cutting action is so slow you’ll never be able to correct a mistake with a hard ark set up to finish razors. Best to walk the edge back to your prefinisher if that happens.