Thread: Bad honing or bad steel??

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.