Originally Posted by
grunion
...to you guys. Since I'm still in that uncomfortable place where folks who haven't yet learned how to hone are trying to establish a reliable feedback loop between what they do with the hone and what the results look and feel like, I had another plan: I was going to go about 100 laps on an 800 grit stone, a 1K stone, and then a 1.2K stone, using Japanese "nagura" slurry, just to see what would happen. But based on the replies to this thread, I'm thinking that might just make things worse, and that it might be better to go right to my 4k. Two questions, then: Shall I use the nagura stone on the Norton 4K to create a slurry? And, any ideas at all about roughly how many laps? I know that can't really be determined without seeing the blade (BTW, it's a decent-but-unremarkable Gregg Howe Sterling Special No. 1001, 6/8), but are we likely to be talking more like 50, or more like 1000?
Thanks as always for your time.
>>>denis