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Lesslemming
Hi Paul, I am by no means a Honemeister, but maybe I can answer your question.
I do not know what exactly you mean with fragile. If you drop a Shapton GS to the stone floor,
it might eventually crack. Just like most stones would.
The Glasstones are ceramic bond to tempered glass.
Tempered Glass is used for windshields in cars, as far as I know.
It is much more durable than normal glass and will not shatter that easily.
The Glass is used as a backup, since the 5mm of Ceramic alone would be too fragile.
So I would say in normal use they are not more prone to shattering than most others.
Since I own both the 16k and the 30k GS maybe I can tell a little something about these, too.
The GS 16k puts on a nice mirror after a good 8.000 Stone.
Only under high magnification, a very faint and homogenous scratch pattern is evident.
Itīs so soft, you could almost say it is scratch free. To the naked eye you see only a dark 3D luster.
The Edge it is capable of producing is straight and keen (high magnification).
Only very faintly some detorriations can be present at ~120-200times magnification.
The HHT is positive and a shave comfortably possible. Yet I find the 16k just a tad harsh.
The 30k does not put things on a whole new level. It does not.
It also doesnīt improve the Edge worth 3 times the price of a 16k.
It is an object of prestige! But when you have it, you will eventually come to love it.
I have a Wacker Jahresmesser 2008 as well as an Iwasaki Kamisori sharpened on the Shapton System
upt to 30.0000. Both show a perfectly dark 3D luster to the naked eye,
with even less of a scratch pattern under high magnification.
The edge seems not to become simply sharpened. Under magnification you can see,
the little detorriations will not get entirely lost, but somehow smoothened out.
The edges of these little detorriations and nicks cease to be frayed and take on some kind of haloish shine.
That`s something that happens with a 0.5ĩ diamond strop on felt, too.
The 30k needs a very good technique, otherwise you will not benefit from it
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Vielen Dank!!! My current go to set up is: Norton 1K/4K/8K/Naniwa 12K/CrOx on balsa and felt/White paste on same. I also have diamond spray down to .0125 Micron for knives and I have been trying them out on a wedge for fun. My gut says on a full hollow most of my diamond would make the edge to fragile for a fullhollow but maybe a wedge would be different.
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