Thread: HHT better off 12k than crox

The shapton 16k glass stone is around 0.9 micron and the 30k shapton glass stone is around 0.4 micron, which is pretty close to good green chrome oxide - around 0.5 micron. So what you are really saying is that your 12k gives the same results as a 30k hone.

While I'm not disputing your findings given certain parameters, I can feel the difference myself.

Your cromox is on balsa so I'm assuming a pretty rigid paddle or block of balsa, which is good and which gets the most out of the cromox.

One of the variables is that at this type of fineness the differences are subtle and I would imagine that one shave or stropping could make them very hard to tell apart. Another variable would be the actual grade of cromox you are using and whether it is finely graded or not - some, although containing 0.5 micron grains, are pretty coarsely graded so the effect of the finer grains is undone by the coarser ones. Another variable would be the sensitivity of the individuals skin - an analogy might be found in wine tasting where some people have such sensitive senses that they can name the type, year and where the wine came from, while the rest of us are just content to glance at the label and quaff the bottle!

Regards,
Neil