Thread: Buying Chinese 12K in Europe?

Guys I am thinking of buying this guanxi
hone. I sharpen plane blades and chisels
and use 800,3000 and 8000 naniwa ss.

I find the naniwas very soft and sometimes
the blade gouges in the stone.

I am thinking of buying a very hard asagi
in the future, but in the meantime I would
like to try this very hard chinese hone. I
was thinking of using this hone instead of the
naniwa 8000.

I would try to solve the gap between the #3000
naniwa SS and 12000(some say lower, others higher)
with a nagura slurry and then finish with only water or
slurry of the guanxi itself. Pretty sure this would work.

Anybody know where I can buy this hone in Europe?
I am interested in the bigger size with a slurry stone.

Are these stone with lots of inclusions, cracks? The price
is very low compared to coticules,eschers and jnats. Is it
possible to get a stone without lines/cracks, basically flawless?

If anybody is selling this hone in the 8 by 2.5 in Europe,
let me know?

Thanks

Sharpman

If you scroll down on the link, you will see it for sale Razor Hones

A guy from Poland sells these stones in ebay.

I would recommend a Shapton 8.000 to you!
Shaptons cannot be gauged, and are great for bigger knives.
You could even jump from Naniwa 3k to Shapton 12k!
Much quicker and more consistant than the C12k.

On the other hand, I bought my C12k from Poland and am very pleased with the transaction

I bought my C12k from that Polish guy, it came lapped and ready for sharpening fun.

Indeed it does come flat, but the performance of the C12k is greatly improved by polishing the surface.
This is hard work! You buy a stone for 25€ and have to work on it for like 60€ (in life-time).

I recommand either lapping film for the final polish, or rubbing the C12k under running water against some very hard and quite fine stone.
I found the BBW works miracles on the C12k. I have small (credit card size) BBW that I ran across the C12k initially for about an hour.
This brought the C12k to an extremely smooth and shiny surface. As smooth as my Shapton 30k!
That´s where it performs best. A little bit like the Spyderco, I figure.
The polish of the surface has an impact on the quality of the edge it gives

But of course this makes for a slow, slow stone

that Polish guy

sounds like he´s the polishing-man

Originally Posted by Blix

I bought my C12k from that Polish guy, it came lapped and ready for sharpening fun.

Okay, I have to modify that reply, I put on a pencil grid on the C-Nat and ran it on the DMT 325 to check how flat it really was, and a circle formed in the middle, clearly it wasn't flat at all. 2 hours later on the DMT it's finally flat....
I'll save the BBW polishing for another day....