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06-24-2008, 10:15 PM #9
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Thanked: 124Yes, I lapped both of them on sandpaper, using a piece of thick plate glass that I keep for that purpose.
I've had a chance to play with them a bit more. I now believe the 3-line Swaty is actually COARSER than my cushioned strop hone (!) It is also very fast-cutting and has a much higher coefficient of friction than any of my other hones. I think the 2-line Swaty sits somewhere between the C.S. hone and the Gem hone. I think the Swaty-3 will be useful for completely resetting the bevel on edges that I've convexed into oblivion with the Cr02.
I think Randy is on the money here: barber hones have a lot of variance in grit size from batch to batch.
BTW, both hones say "AUSTRIA" on them, if that matters.