Thread: Bad honing or bad steel??

If you are where you say you're at it is just a touch more to go....
Stay on your highest grit stone, do 2 sets of 10 laps and go as light a touch as possible on the second ten.... that 12k chinese might take 3 sets of ten...
After the stones do 20 perfect laps on the Cr strop, then 50 linen and 100 leather and see if that doesn't bring it into line.....

Originally Posted by gssixgun

If you are where you say you're at it is just a touch more to go....
Stay on your highest grit stone, do 2 sets of 10 laps and go as light a touch as possible on the second ten......

I agree with Glen, your almost there. Easy does it from now on.

I've got a chinese 12k, should I use that for the last 2 sets of 10 laps? I've read they are very slow cutters, will 20 laps be enough?

I've also got a small coticule that was thrown in with another ebay razor, but I don't have a slurry stone for it. This might be a ridiculous question, but I was thinking that since the chinese 12k and the coticule are about the same grit could they be used on each other to form a slurry on the coticule? I'd like to try it out as a polishing stone.

Originally Posted by rshaw

I've got a chinese 12k, should I use that for the last 2 sets of 10 laps? I've read they are very slow cutters, will 20 laps be enough?

I've also got a small coticule that was thrown in with another ebay razor, but I don't have a slurry stone for it. This might be a ridiculous question, but I was thinking that since the chinese 12k and the coticule are about the same grit could they be used on each other to form a slurry on the coticule? I'd like to try it out as a polishing stone.

If your goal is to polish the edge, then don't make a slurry on the coticule, use just plain water as the slurry will make the coticule act more like a 6K stone.

You can use a diamond plate to make a raise a slurry on the coticule if needed.