Thread: Honing practice today- what have I done here?

Originally Posted by Sdm84

Fooling around with different techniques today- and something strange (for me) happened. This is a micrograph after bevel set on a 3k Naniwa Pro stone, but instead of cleaning the stone off after I lapped it I left slurry on the stone and did x strokes like I would on a Jnat. To me this looks like a Jnat edge?

I am progressing to 5k now and going to try the same thing, but I was going to check with the wisdom here to see if I'm just wasting my time here or if I can use this as a technique?

When you use slurry you have a bunch of different sized particles in the mix so the eye does not see light reflected in an even pattern hence the hazy looking bevel.
Jknives can have the bevels polished that way but the edge will always be taken to a finer polish, even a microbevel.
If you hone up to 12k or more with slurry you will get a much shinier bevel because the particles are becoming smaller.
If you have a haze that also reflects like a mirror then you are approaching what can be done with a Jnat