Originally Posted by
mparker762
I generally don't take my sheffields to a very high grit. The sheffields are soft enough that the aggressive lower-grit shaptons leave deep gouges in the steel that take the arkansas forever to get out. The TOS with a thick slurry does this much faster than the pink. Accd to Norton the translucents are around 6k, but my pink cuts noticeably finer than that - it makes an edge a bit sharper than the Norton 8k. Once it leaves the pink then it gets a few laps on the boron carbide (~12k) and I usually call it a day. I've experimented going higher that that but the tradeoffs haven't really been worth it.