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1. translucent ark 2. translucent&soft ark 3.strop&surgical black ark 4. dans ez hone 4 stones 8x1 trans 5. hard ark 6.soft ark 7.silicon carbide 8.soldiers carborundum 102 9.109 carborundum 10.spyderco double stuff fine ceramic 11.spyderco double stuff medium ceramic 12.fallkniven dc4 diamond 13. dc4 ceramic 14.combo diamond hone 400 15. combo diamond 600 16. 1200 grit diamond hone 17. dmt 325 grit 10x4 18 charnley forest hone thanks and enjoy
and the rest of them
Did they have a hone stand at the flea market, or did you just drop $1,000 bucks on new hones?
lol no some where around 3-5 grand i have threads on natural and synthetic hones
WOW. You are hardcore my friend
Nice CF. Have you lapped it?
it came lapped and ready to go
YUP you are truly hard core, I whined around for awhile about spending 177 on the timber tools Thurrigan,and that was a huge improvement to what I already had(Norton's,and a C12,and a coti bout. But you are DEFINATLY the guy to ask, are they all different, and are some not really good for razors,something you can only know after using them,and if so which ones would you have not bought if you could go back and do it over?Quote:
Originally Posted by eleblu05
Thanks
Griz ( OH yeah one other thing-your definitely THE MAN, spending that kind of money on ,lets face it,a ROCK!)
soft arks can be to bevel set i have used a diamond hone 325 grit to set a bevel on a wedge the translucents and surgical black , ceramic , and the charnley forest can be used to finish i like stone knives and razors i tell my wife i have no habits so i invest in hobbies
guess what i forgot these two spyderco ultra fine and medium
that's definitely a good collection and you must have a good wife as well,i love natural stones but i don't think i'd be able to spend that much,i'm giving up smoking and my incentive is one translucent maybe in the future i can add more,with the ezi hone will you use the angle guides on the ends i'm curious what you think of them,also how would you compare the finish of the translucents and the charnley forest.
i'm going to compare my charnley forest hone to my 16k shapton sometime this week now on the ez hone i bought that for my pocket knives when set the bevel for knives ,pen knives i use a 25 degree angle and clip blades i use a 20 degree angle the most important thing to keep in mind with sharpness for knives is edge geometry and then polishing
i usually stick with 10 degrees but for certain jobs i have sharpened differently even sushi style and it does seem to change for personal prefference too,i've worked with a couple hundred people over the years and most of them had they're own style even amongst people doing the same job with a variant or two,one thing i have read on this and other razor sites where people say it's not worth the effort to hone they're knives at the higher grits that they finish razors with,i disagree with that and always polish my edges all the way to hair popping and always have in fact i bought my arkansas's for my work knives before i started shaving with straights,once i experienced the way a hair splitting highly polished edge glides through what ever i cut i knew i could never go back to lower grits and be happy,i'd like your oppinion on the subject and if you know of others oppinions that would be great too i'm also going to get more oxides from Larry at whipped dog and try and do what you mentioned in another post off putting the oxides on the stone,would the black be ok with it or should i wait till i have a translucent and i'm thinking if there's a way to bond the oxides into super fine stones the idea came from thinking about all the stone dust created by the cutting and finishing natural stones and what happens to it could that be bonded aswell,sorry to ramble on just had a lot of thoughts when i started posting
alucard73 i've used the chromium oxide powder on translucent before but i like the chromium oxide liquid on balsa wood the best i got my chromium oxide liquid from chefknivestogo.com great stuff i also have the .25 micron diamond spray and hard felt but i dont use that on knives if would work beautifully i just dont need my knives that sharp and yes to the boron carbide (the black paste) they have that to in liquid the boron carbide in a past post i said it was 15,000 grit i was wrong its 30,000 grit the chromium oxide is 60,000 grit and the .25 diamond is some where around 120,000 grit