Thread: Please suggest a finishing stone

I have never seen a real definitive answer about what grit a Swaty may be, but it has to be near 10K. Am I wrong? Admittedly my knowledge here is limited, but it seems to give a really good edge. I have read that an 8k would be the minimum to use. Surely a swaty is finer than that. Maybe there is a better option for me. I just came across a hone at an antique store that seems to be a slate type hone. Gives a great edge, though.

Originally Posted by Zeus

I have never seen a real definitive answer about what grit a Swaty may be, but it has to be near 10K. Am I wrong? Admittedly my knowledge here is limited, but it seems to give a really good edge. I have read that an 8k would be the minimum to use. Surely a swaty is finer than that. .

For many moons Barber's Hones and many others were rated pretty low... then the Shapton system gained popularity in our circles and the next thing we saw was wild eyed claims for grit guesses

Go back in the archives if you don't believe this...

This was pre Shapton grit guesses

Barber's hone = 6-8
Coticule = 6-8
BBW = 4
Escher = 10-12
Japanese (ig: )= 12
Thuringens (ig: ) = 8-10
Chinese =
Charnely Forest = 10
TOS = 6
WOA = 8
These were just some of the ones I remember and I am pretty sure of the old grit guesses...
After the Shapton 16k and 30k became widely used everyone's pet stone all of a sudden started to go up in the grit guessing game...

What any of them really are is always just a guess...although the guess of 50k that I recently saw from an e-bay honester was about laughable..