How else would you expect someone to interpret that?
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I meant the other way round! Go from a Nani 12K to an Escher as opposed to an 8K to an Escher.
I thought you meant the edge would not be as good using an 8K to Escher, rather than your take on wasting the Escher!
Jimmy, does it actually make a difference 8K to Escher or 12K to Escher, or is it the same end result?
No problem Sham, glad to hear your experience - Ive been polishing a mere 2 years, honing for less than 1 year.
Out of interest what do you use before the Escher?
Gee I don't know. Maybe, like Sham says, coming off the 12k rather than the 8k would require less strokes for the optimum result ? I don't worry about wasting the stone. I have 3/4" thick and 7/8" thick that I like to use (Eschers) ..... I'm 61 years old. I don't think I will wear them out. :) IOW, I'll be gone before they will.
At the moment this is my last 2 stones
Japanese stone then Escher.
Now Sick people same as me never use same progression forever.
what happens is this.
i hone razors and find ideal progression then i lost interest i move different stones and try to find ideal progression again.
it is because of our HAD. AT least how i think.
Long time ago i was using Norton,1k, Japanese 3k, then brown natural stone then Norton 8k , shapton 16k ,ecsher.
Progression is constantly changes.
I like to use Many stones less strokes.
This is my personal preferences.gl
sham i have still have to test the two you did for me .i will test them by the week end and post. as i said i shaved a customer with one of the razors and the razor shaved no problem, i have to try so i can feel for my self. i will post the differance between a good coti edge and your escher edge.