Thread: A compendium of hones and their grits

Great thread, as some one just starting this is giving me some great info. Does any one have an idea where a carborundum hone would go on the list? I know that someone (possibly item description on eBay) said it was about 7k.

Actually, there is a pretty decent variety of grits for carborundum stones. Home Depot sells them in 100, 200, 400, and I believe 800, but not much higher.

I also have a little carborundum barber hone, I have no idea the grit, but I would place it somewhere in the area of 8,000.

And I have a tiny ancient arkansas stone that must be up around 6k or 8k but no way to identify it. I would exclude these kinds of outliers because people can't purchase them.

My idea here is to list readily available (and identifiable) stone...things someone wanting to hone can go and purchase, to fill a gap in their grinding.

If you want to maintain the list in Word, then I suggest you convert it to a PDF and attach it. (There are many ways to convert it PDF... primopdf is the one I use and it's free.)

Alternatively, you can get good alignment if you post by selecting a font such as courier new and then invoke the "code" bbcode. EG,

Code:

Name          Adjusted      Cost-US $    Cutting Speed     Hardness
             Norton Grit
DMT Black      200           33.00            Fast          Hard
DMT Blue       325           33.00            Fast          Hard
DMT Red        600           33.00            Fast          Hard
DMT Green     1200           33.00            Fast          Hard
King 1200     1200           35.00            Fast          Soft
Bester 2000   1200           32.00            Fast          Medium
Spyderco Med  3000           ?                Ultra Fast    ?
Norton 4K     4000           40.00            Slow          Soft
King 6000     6000           35.00            Medium        Soft
Belgian Blue  5000-6000      40.00            Slow          Hard
Norton 8K     8000           50.00            Medium        Soft
King 8000     8000           35.00            Fast          Soft
Spyderco Fine 8000           ?                Fast
DMT 3 Micron  8000           79.00            Fast          Hard
Kitayama      1OK -12K       98.00            Medium        Soft Finish