Thread: Cheap 4000 and 8000 grit waterstones!

I don't regret buying them and I still use'em from time to time. The slowness of their cutting helped me develop proper technique. At times when I get frustrated with a lack of progress in taking that final step with the Norton, I give these babies a quick soak (3min or so as directed) and do a pyramid or two, finishing off with a 1-5 1-5 1-8 on the Noton. That almost always does the trick. Don't ask me why, it just works.

Slow cutters do polish.

Matsunaga Corp make both the King and Sun tiger branded stones.

The sun tiger are the cheaper (lower quality) brand.

I have one of their 240 bricks for reprofiling knives but i have never tried one of their finer stones.

I bought a three stone set (1000, 4000, 8000) Seem to be a reasonable quality.

in the pictures on the websites they seem to be angled like a door stopper, a triangle. is this the case and if so how does it affect your honing?

do you have to do a downstroke, turn the entire hone over so u can do your up stroke? kinda confused by the slant of it.



i was looking for something to do some touch-ups on my kitchen knives..figured a 180 or the 1000 grit.. would they work for that purpose and if so which would be better for kitchen knives?

~J

I place one on top of the other and get a flat surface.

Originally Posted by FiReSTaRT

I place one on top of the other and get a flat surface.

That is a clever way to utilise slipstones, i had not though of that.

The piled up slipstones do not slip?

Not if you pad dry (but not completely) the contact surfaces with a paper tissue. Well they do a bit, but not seriously and it's easily controllable as opposed to just slapping them together.

On another note, to expedite the honing process I do my circular honing on the bottom surface of the 4k. That's the good side to having hones with dedicated grits.

Originally Posted by imported_Tony Miller

Firstart,
I was not trying to rain on your parade and cheaper may work out quite well. I started with medium priced Japanese stones and just did not have great luck. I figured a Norton was the only way to go but didn't want to spend $70-80. I got some old barber hones from Tilly for $10-15 and have great luck now.
These may be fine I just didn;t want you to think all are created alike.

Tony

Is there a website for this tilly person/company? I'm new to straight razor and would like to see about purchasing a cheap finishing/barbers double sided hone. This site is great I've learned quite a bit