Thread: Y/G Escher is as fine as...

If I'd have taken the spyderco out of the box, I would've thought that it was the devil. It had mill marks on it and I lapped it dry for a very long time before I got them out. Then it was super aggressive. I would've still thought it was the devil. After using it for chisels and plane blades for a while and completely knocking the teeth of of it, it's right where I want it. It barely removes anything and with water it is so super fine that it is nearly impossible to get a bad edge with it. It's like an arkansas stone in that respect, the binder is so strong it doesn't let go of the abrasive and it gets duller and duller and more toward polish and less toward hone.

I appreciate hones like that, so the Y/G might not be for me. That might be why I like the japanese natural so much, too. I'll give the stone a few months maybe, unless I can find a good trade for a high quality japanese stone. No reason to twaddle with what doesn't turn you on when you already know what does. Especially if you like to go just straight off the stone with leather only (and I like to do that), and you know you have finer naturals that still leave a comfortable edge.

I have to try a frictionite edge tomorrow, else I'd try the dry honed thuri edge. I dry honed a different razor on the thuri tonight, one that was already finished, and it does feel like a little bit more keenness. But I can do that on any number of stones that I have. I could be happy with any hones, straight off a coti is fine, which until the latest rash, that's what I've been doing. Unlike some of the above comments, which I can't tell what they're actually intending to imply, I prefer the interest factor of the stones edge instead of knocking it smoother with chromium oxide, but I don't for a second contest that the chromium oxide is a cheap way to get an edge that is definitely keener by a half notch vs. what I get off hones.