Thread: Made in China but not 12k so let's stop calling it 12k

Originally Posted by hoglahoo

Maybe 12k is not meant to represent a grit rating.

Maybe 12k is the communist version of the karat rating for gold

Maybe 12k represents the number of dogs that are cooked up each year to feed the peasant workers who hew these from solid rock

Let's not be hasty. Let's give our comrades in China the benefit of the doubt

Maybe its the number of stokes needed to lap the darn thing and to get your very first polished edge

I think Utopian is right. When i first started looking at hones, i just assumed that the chinese 12K was man made, do to the grit destination. It wasnt until much later, that i read that it was a natural stone.
Just my 0.2 cents.

Mac

I don't honestly believe that I will succeed in altering the designation of what I have been calling the Chinese hone. I just wanted to point out the disparity and confusing aspect of calling it by a grit designation.

I'll go ahead and go back to playing with my 12k Escher, my 15k Escher, my 16k Escher, my 16.2k Escher, my 3k-14k coticules, my 27k Nakayama Namito, my 31k Nakayama Asagi, my 36k Nakayama Asagi, and my Chinese hone.