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    Quote Originally Posted by Ben325e View Post
    ooh.... a shiny new forum....

    So here it is: If I properly use a ch12k followed by CrO, I feel like it's just as good as a shap 16k with CrO. I'm even considering selling the 16k.

    Whatcha think?
    Let your face decide which works better for you.

    Which hones to use is really a personal preference.

    Just my $.02,
    Randolph Tuttle, a SRP Mentor for residents of Minnesota & western Wisconsin

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    I often go direct from the DMTEE straight to ChromOx.

    Love it.


    On the Zowada website he shows edge comparrisons of finishing stones. He sets the edge with a Norton 8000, and then uses a variety of finishers.

    The two that look the cleanest are the Chinese 12K, and the Cromox.


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    If you are going to finish on CromOx, I don't think a finishing hone above 8k is required. Just as long as the 8k level is honed correctly to begin with as stated above.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Seraphim View Post
    I often go direct from the DMTEE straight to ChromOx.
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    If you are going to finish on CromOx, I don't think a finishing hone above 8k is required. Just as long as the 8k level is honed correctly to begin with as stated above.
    Hmmmm, so why am I fussing with all these high dollar, high grit stones?

    Oh, and what do you like your ChromeOx on? Balsa, webbing, leather, hanging, bench hone, paddle???
    Last edited by matt321; 09-22-2009 at 11:21 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Seraphim View Post
    If you are going to finish on CromOx, I don't think a finishing hone above 8k is required. Just as long as the 8k level is honed correctly to begin with as stated above.

    I agree. The norton 4k/8k+CrOx was one of the standard honing setups back in 2006, before the ready availability of the high-grit hones (the other was collectively N4k/8k+high-grit hone which was some variant of coticule, escher, C12k, or swaty). Once the 16k and 30k glassstones came out then they were the hot set-up for guys that didn't like paste but did like that wonderful edge, and then the nakayamas and Spyderco UFs came out, and at some point the new guys merged the N4k/8k+chromeox system with the N4k/8k+high-grit hone system to get this gotta-use-everything system.

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    Quote Originally Posted by matt321 View Post
    Hmmmm, so why am I fussing with all these high dollar, high grit stones?

    Oh, and what do you like your ChromeOx on? Balsa, webbing, leather, hanging, bench hone, paddle???

    I use a hanging canvas strop lightly dusted with Chrisl'S ChroMox.

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