Thread: Using 1K, 4K, 8K, then....

Are you using milk on any of those?

Har ! I know that video.

Been doing a LOT of research lately and you likely have a point there I can use. I may start bevel setting on a 1K and then move up from there. It may be that the lower grit bevel setting is leaving too many gouges that I'm missing. Good call!

Originally Posted by Brontosaurus

Not sure about a 240 grit stone or glass from the start for so-called bevel-setting. What has consistently worked for me with water-stones over the past couple of years has been a 1k/3k Suehiro combo stone followed by a coticule used with water only followed by a Welsh purple slate used with water only or with sewing machine oil. Then it's off to a plain barber's leather strop.

Another great perspective. I learned on the Escher to completely finish an edge (up to the felt anyway) but I must have worked a blade at some point that just wouldn't take the Escher's input. So I added the CrOx and diamond to get there. Could be that I just have to get to the Escher, do that correctly, and then go to felt. If the blade isn't right then backtrack to 4K or 8K and see if that's where the problem started. More to toy with for a while I guess. Thanks.

Originally Posted by JOB15

Escher to crox.
I would have thought that Escher would be the finish , if all the previous steps were perfected .

If only! LMAO

Originally Posted by MedicineMan

Here's pics of my progression in order from B. set to finisher.

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You have a link? Sounds like one I'd enjoy.

Originally Posted by onimaru55

Har ! I know that video.

Here ya go.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zD2z2vJEpKQ

I found myself watching that video through my fingers.

It made me laugh.

^^^You gotta be kidding^^^

Pete <:-}

Thanks Utopian! I heard about that vid after I posted, but hadn't seen it yet.
"Tap the blade a few times on the brick just to loosen up the metal"