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03-20-2022, 12:35 AM #1
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Thanked: 315What is Your Current Honing Set-up?
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After speaking with one member who has switched to Glass, I was wondering what you guys were using these days and what you used previously. How do they compare?- Joshua
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03-20-2022, 12:40 AM #2
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Thanked: 13245For most razors
Naniwa Chosera / Professional 1-5-10 into a Natural finisher depending on the steel characteristics through the progression"No amount of money spent on a Stone can ever replace the value of the time it takes learning to use it properly"
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03-20-2022, 01:19 AM #3
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03-20-2022, 03:05 AM #4
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Thanked: 13245I use the GS 1-2-4-6-8-16-30 pretty much only with the razors that can handle a 30k edge nowadays,,, Most American and especially NY made
The Naniwa SS 1-3-5-8-10-12 are mostly reserved for some of the new finicky steels, they are very gentle polishers and you can avoid so many issues using them, especially with slurry... Many Customs, Revisor, some of the TI steel, Wacker these are so easy when you take all the steps, and you avoid the "Sparklies""No amount of money spent on a Stone can ever replace the value of the time it takes learning to use it properly"
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03-20-2022, 05:42 AM #5
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Thanked: 315Those short intervals sound good to me.
I'm considering transitioning to glass when I start honing again but I would probably just go to 8 or 16 and use film or compound if I wanted to go finer. Wouldn't use a 30 enough to justify the expense, if at all. Not sure how it compares to other edges. I'll have to see how sharp I can get a Torrey someday on film.- Joshua
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03-20-2022, 06:14 AM #6
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Thanked: 13245"No amount of money spent on a Stone can ever replace the value of the time it takes learning to use it properly"
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JP5 (03-25-2022)
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03-20-2022, 09:10 AM #7
Also you can get away with a pasted strop if you don't have a natural. Can't get much sharper than a 12k Kuromaku edge but it does need some taming.
Ironically it's one of their stones they don't recommend for razors but I think it was Iwasaki san or Mizouchi san said you could use the 12k if you didn't have a Jnat.“The white gleam of swords, not the black ink of books, clears doubts and uncertainties and bleak outlooks.”
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03-20-2022, 09:55 AM #8
Norton 1K, 4K, 8K, Chinese with/without Belgian slur, Suehiro Gokumyo 20K
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03-20-2022, 10:15 AM #9
Usually 1 - 3 - 8 - 12k Naniwa SS or 1k Naniwa SS - Coticle
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03-20-2022, 12:16 PM #10
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Thanked: 556Shapton Kuromaku 1k or 1.5k (I prefer the 1.5k) to set a bevel followed by Norton 4k/8k, then BBW/Coticule and finish with a Vermio or Pierre La Lune or Oozuku, depending on my mood. Sometimes I end with chromium oxide on balsa.
I’m not very scientific about it, but the Sheffield steels seem to really like the coticules.David
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