Thread: These just came in!

Originally Posted by brooksie967

I haven't the equipment to compare scratch patterns in a meaningful way. I personally like the edge it produces better than the razors I've finished on the 12k Naniwa, that's all I'm trying to say. Why do you and other people choose to finish razors on any of your hones? I see you finishing razors on the norton, coticules, naniwas, eschers; there has to be a reason for this other than "I just felt like using this stone today". For whatever reason, different steel, grinds, razors work better with different stones. Maybe it's just my luck, no idea Glen, but I really do like the edge it produces better than the 12k Naniwa 99% of the time.

Ahhhhh see that is what I was digging for...

I have a personal pet peeve about Natural "grit" ratings as do many others.. I especially don't like when the Sellers start using them to promote their stones, I have said this many times, "Go back in the Archives before the Shaptons became popular, and you would be hard pressed to find many claims of any stones higher then 10k"
Now we have people claiming all sorts of numbers on all sorts of Stones and Hones.. I saw one earlier of a Barber Hone rated at over 12k...
We have AJ and the Polish guy on e-bay using this and now claiming 15k rating on the WHIGs and the PHIGs ie: the cycle continues and the numbers keep going up, the worst part is that you also can't prove that is not true.. This is all just guessing, or really a WAG

Saying the edge produced feels better on your face I agree with, and say the same, but the variablity of why, has so much more involved then simply grit ratings..
It could be something as simple as you are more comfortable using the WHIG then you are using the Naniwa...

Scratch patterns, are another huge source of Mis-information as are Micrographs, they lead to many assumptions based on the looks of the Bevel, instead of the performance of the edge...

This all of course is JMHO, but honestly I laugh everytime I see a higher number claimed... The best was the guy claiming 50k Japanese naturals and within 6 months he changed it to 100k.. You can't really call it wrong, but ya sure can smile..