Thread: A compendium of hones and their grits

works for me, It's just nice to have one place to go if we want to know about a certain hone...
Once we have enough input, we can combine it together and make a reference for the Faq section.

There are challenges to the system but it would be nice to be able to look up the relative merits of hones?

When one manufacturer uses the average grit size with a standard deviation and the next uses the largest grit size to describe their hones it is difficult to compare unless you already have them and can look at the results.

The system doesn't need to be perfect I'd love to be able to look up simple things like:

A shapton 8k is a good next step after a Norton 8k as the norton 8k largest grit is around 3.x microns and the largest grit in shapton 8k is 1.x microns or
but "do/or do not" the have about the same affect on my blade and are similar (but different) and I should instead go to a 12k / 16k /30k hone as a next step in polishing rather than wasting my time.

or 2k sandpaper has similar/different characteristics to a 4k hone.

and where does my swaty that's in the mail fit into all of this?


- Bob