Has anyone ever used a C12K from Woodcraft? Just curious about quality. I had them special order to the store so I'm not committed to buy it (wink). Let me know what you think.
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Has anyone ever used a C12K from Woodcraft? Just curious about quality. I had them special order to the store so I'm not committed to buy it (wink). Let me know what you think.
A forum search will show all sorts of threads about this stone.
I'll chime in anyway... I love mine, leaves a very nice finish. I use mine with a little lather, maybe a little slurry depending on where I'm at with the razor. Very slow, hard to screw up with it.
The price is great and I think it equals some stones with much pricier reputations.
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Lots of people get theirs from Woodcraft. I love mine as well. it's an excellent stone, and with a little slurry, it cuts down on the number of strokes needed. The only thing I would do differently, is I would get the smaller size if I had to do it over again.. the 8x~3 is a little big if you plan on holding it in your hand while honing. I'm having a fellow student cut mine down for me. once that's done, I'll have a couple nice slurry stones, and 3 stones instead of 1 ;)
how would you make a slurry for the C12K? Do you need an extra piece of stone for that?
When i had one, i used a hacksaw to cut a off asmall piece of the stone to use to build slurry.
Or you can buy one.
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Originally Posted by Bevo
I also have one. It works good but slow. I use it on the harder steel razors like US steel and German steel. I judge the hardness of the steel by how it it loads my 8k Norton. The C12k really smooths out the edge after the 8k. Good low budget hone for the results but it will require a bunch of honing laps to get there.
Why do we not have shops like this in the uk?
Ian go to the bottom of this pageQuote:
Originally Posted by BigIan
you can also find them in various sizes on ebay
your welcome :)
ian
cheers Ian.Quote:
Originally Posted by ianp1966
I Like to feel and see a tool before i buy it, so i just wish there was a high street store i could walk into and buy these things rather than via the tinterweb
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Originally Posted by BigIan
I know what you mean and i agree with you,however, we ask peoples opinions in the hope that they will give us good, unbiased, advice in fora such as this for a reason and if it saves on the bus fair then that's ok by me too :)
ian - who might get a Chinese 12k one day when he needs it ....
Anothe option is to buy a C12 from open_razor on ebay that's already lapped & chamfered. And also comes with a slurry stone.
he does a few different sizes, of 12k, too :)Quote:
Originally Posted by DeeJay
ian
I too like to see/feel something in person before I buy it. If you get it from a seller on ebay, just make sure you can return/exchange it if there's something about it you don't like.Quote:
Originally Posted by BigIan
If you find one that comes with a slurry stone, get it. The slurry will save you a bunch of laps, since the c12k stones are very slow cutters, but they do indeed put a heck of a polished finish on a razor IME ;)
I have a really small carborundum hone that I use to raise a slurry on this stone, works like a charmQuote:
Originally Posted by Bevo
I didn't like myc12k at all. When you get it, your best bet is to go outside and lap it on concrete and then hitthe sandpaper or DMT. I did mine in 10 minutes this way.
After it was lapped, did you like the results? I've heard bad things about lapping, but good things about the results.
I love mine, puts a great polishing on the edge.
I got mine Chinese yesterday. I ordered it from The Invieble Edge. It was very fast delivery, I ordered it at friday and I got it at tuesday.
I am now lapping it. It feels quite different than my Naniwas, they are lot of softer than a Chinese. I have read somewhere in the SRP that it is very hard stone, and lapping takes a little more time than a softer stones.
First I started with 400 grit waterpaper. At the begin there was coming slurry a little. Then it feels like there was happening nothing. Then I tried 320 grit and I am not sure if I must go even coarser. There are still a minimun natural prints on ist surface in the margin of the stone. I can feel those with my finger, but they are minimal as I mentioned. In the most part of stone surface is like a mirror. What about those prints, are there any change to get good honing result without removing those prints?
What you think about the lapping grits with Chinese? And how long it would take approximately. I lapped my three Naniwas in the one evening. Now I have lapped my Chinese one evening and I am still not there.
I think it's a great value. The finish I get is as good as any stone I've tried (not that I'm a master or anything). For $20, it's not a big gamble to give it a shot.
jordan
I just received my C12k from Woodcraft this morning. Out of the box I don't think you'll want to put your razor on it. Mine had tooling marks from to stone saw on it so I lapped it right away. I lapped it on a piece of machined aluminum billet starting with 220 grit and proceeding through 400 and 600. It took about 90 min. to get it like I want it. The question I have at this point is 600 grit fine enough? I also put a radius on the corners and edges.
I'm hoping to use it to simply polish and maintain my razor's edge. While I have lots of experience at sharpening all sorts of tools, I've found out in the last six weeks that maintaining a shave ready razor is another kettle of fish. ;)
Rob.
I had one delivered from the invisible edge this morning, and no issues, lapping it, took about 20 mins.
works pretty well also