Thread: In a hurry? Spyder-slurry!

worked for me i took an english wedge i had a hard time getting shaving sharp and using this method it is scary sharp now thanks for the tip

Well, it took me a while but I finally acted on Joke's Spyder-Slurry suggestion of making a slurry with a DMT plate, but I wanted to do it with a slurry stone. Since my father in-law has a tile cutting saw, I got him to cut a slurry stone off of the end of my Spyderco UF when we visited for Thanksgiving. I'm thankful to report that it works just as Joke described!!!

After making a slurry with the rubbing stone, it only took 10 light passes to show lots of steel residue on the hone. This is definitely going to be something that I will be playing with more!

A tile cutting saw worked? Awesome! I have GOT to get ahold of one, so I can take my full set and make slurry stones.

Thanks a lot for this idea. Given the rate of steel removal, I wouldn't be surprised if I could set a bevel with this "ultra fine" hone!

what is the equivalent grit of the UF on a shapton

According to Spyderco, the UF is only a 2K grit hone. I don't understand that because it performs more like a 10K hone. I have never used a Shapton so I'm not one to compare them but there was a recent comparison between UF and the Shapton 16K.

The objections to the UF were primarily low feedback and slow cutting. I suspect the use of slurry as a step prior to final polish will eliminate some of those objections.

This is a timely thread for me because I just bought the medium, fine and ultra fine lightly used. It seems that there is no agreement on the grit rating of the Spyderco hones. Here is a thread I dug up earlier today doing a search for anything relating to the topic. The second page of the thread has more on the Spyderco then the first. I haven't used mine enough to have a conclusion as to whether they will work for me but I am really glad that joke1176 and Utopian tried the slurry and posted about it.

OK, I have to admit that I got a little bit too excited about the slurry when I speculated that it might be able to be used to set bevels. It won't do that. I have played with it a little more and I have found that the slurry does cause rapid steel removal but the stone loads up pretty quickly. However, I do believe the slurry will allow for faster polishing.

I promise I will play with it more and try to jump to conclusions less!

I thought the same thing, at first. The loading issue is the only reason I don't like these stones as much as naturals really.

That's one reason why I would like to cut the end off for a slurry stone: it would make cleaning a lot faster and easier... I hope.


If I ever figure out how to do it correctly, I am turning this into a wiki article.

Might be a good idea to buy a UF and cut it up for slurry stones. Keep one and put the rest on the classifieds. Chris L did that with the Chinese 12K and it worked out well for him and all who bought one. Me included.