Thread: Buying Chinese 12K in Europe?

Hi Sharpman,

the ebay seller open_razor definitely sells bigger C12k. Just recently I bought a 200x75mm C12k, the biggest stone in my repertoir.
I paid 28€ shipped to Germany. Insane!

What do you mean with 30k loose grit on glass? You mean for honing?
In the grit range beyond 8.000 JIS everything gets very confusing. What kind of powder are you referring to?
(What kind of abrasive and what is the actual grit size?)

What I tried (for kitchen knives, anyway) is a spritz of 0.5µm diamond on the C12k,
or a 0,5µm Al2O3 powder on the C12k. Both works acceptably fine and a lot quicker than the C12k alone.
The C12k is quite a good plattform for any kind of slurry. It´s similar to glass in many ways

If you´re into naturals and you want to jump from Naniwa Super 3.000,
you might want to check with a repuable seller of japanese naturals and ask for tiny stones usable as nagura.
I use my C12k this way:

I set a bevel on my Chosera 1.000. Then I use a slurry I made with a ~5-6.000 Suita on my C12k.
I rinse the Chinese, and repeat the step with a lighter slurry.
Then I switch to another nagure, around 8.000.
Afterwards I create a very fine Ohira slurry on my Chinese.
I finish with a couple of light strokes on the C12k alone.
It´s not quite enough for shaving that way (for me, anyway)
but one hell of a finish for kitchen knives and such.

But the slurry stones can be quite expensive (as expensive as the C12k itself, I guess).
But the one stone honing is quite nice, and almost all natural

what´s your budget?