Thread: Chinese Hone

Trust me Maurice I could be wrong too it has happened before I just rarely like to admit it hehehe

Now I guess I am going to have to go look though or it will bug me hehehe

Wanna bet Ben/Slarti or Lee/Hoglahoo beat me to it though

Hmmmm the mystery is on, as this is the thread I thought it was named in

http://straightrazorpalace.com/hones...ing-12k-2.html

Maybe Dylan did name it... now we must search or Dylan could pipe up here??????

I got one at Woodcraft local store. I got the larger which is thicker and wider. I figured, what the heck, it's not like I'm going to buy this one and in 2 years go by another one. This one is a darker grayish, with some fine darker streaks in it. Seems like I read someplace that the better hones were hard and gray colored, rather than any bluish tint. It's natural, so who knows exactly what grit it really is. Same as a Coticule, is it 8K or 7.5K, or maybe even 10K. They are what they are. This one I lapped flat and find it really puts a shine to the bevel, and I don't even see any slurry with it.

After a huddle with the search guru's we found references to the name back into 9/09 and a reference where Dylan claimed it, and they seem to think it started sometime around there in Chat (by Dylan) actually as an appeasement to Ron's post about it
So now you can say I was wrong ONCE!!!!!!

If anyone finds an earlier reference though, make sure to let Glen know so he can delete it. We can't have him being wrong twice

It's difficult to talk about grits of all natural stones. I have 3K, 12K (two stones with different grit) and 15K Chinese stones. All different. The same story with Belgian stones. And I don't want even to discuss unpredictable and changing grits of Japanese stones. I have Nakayama kiita, that's something.

Sweet, my Harvard referencing was correct! (Holli4pirating, 2009)

Oh Glen, I've been wrong before as well!

Originally Posted by Zelenbakh

It's difficult to talk about grits of all natural stones. I have 3K, 12K (two stones with different grit) and 15K Chinese stones. All different. The same story with Belgian stones. And I don't want even to discuss unpredictable and changing grits of Japanese stones. I have Nakayama kiita, that's something.

Talking grit sizes on naturals is indeed a very difficult task. At least to any kind of exact level.
Now, even if the community(this or any other) were to give those estimates in grit rating, what grit scale should we all use. ANSI? the Japanese counterpart(s)? Some German standard?

Nah, rough estimates related to known, name-given, synthetic counterparts is the only viable option for this, in my opinion that is
And even then, this will be a quite subjective kind of evaluation of grit.
Grit, quite simply, isn't necessary grit, so to speak

Originally Posted by Zelenbakh

It's difficult to talk about grits of all natural stones. I have 3K, 12K (two stones with different grit) and 15K Chinese stones. All different. The same story with Belgian stones. And I don't want even to discuss unpredictable and changing grits of Japanese stones. I have Nakayama kiita, that's something.

I once had a Nakiitta Kruzchef, but it rubbed me the wrong way.