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11-04-2011, 06:54 PM #21
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Thanked: 13236For 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..Last edited by gssixgun; 11-04-2011 at 06:57 PM.
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