Originally Posted by
kwigibocity
I do love the performance of the super stones, but they seem to want for lapping more than any other hone I've tried, and I've tried far, far too many.
One other thing I run into, more so with the 5k and above but especially with the 12k, is that a line of the honing plane running parallel and nearly adjacent to the long edges gathers swarf and gets rough much quicker than the rest of the hone. I can feel the roughness by passing my finger over the surface, so surely it'll affect things on the blade, and only lapping fixes it...I've tried to rub with soft scouring pads to just take out that swarf and it works but the surface still doesn't feel as it did when it was prettier. Never had this happen with a harder waterstone.