Thread: Jnats... best guide for getting started?

Yes, it's a good bit better with a DMT summoned slurry though. I took a smiling razor to it that was swaty finished and polished it for 50 passes flat. Then I checked it and the toe and heal still had scratches, so I tried 20 of the sweeping strokes for dealing with smiles, and those 20 passes were enough to take out all except for 3 or 4 particularly deep scratches from the scratch pattern. I also discovered that my dimo-grit barber hone if a half-decent bridge between 1.2k and king... so other than it's size 2"x3", I think Im pretty much setup for hones for the time being unless I come across a replacement for the dimo cheap. Now to learn this Jnat better and try to resist buying more.

Originally Posted by IanS

I also discovered that my dimo-grit barber hone if a half-decent bridge between 1.2k and king... so other than it's size 2"x3", I think Im pretty much setup for hones for the time being unless I come across a replacement for the dimo cheap.

You mean like an Aoto?

Yeah, Aoto is looking like what I'll be wanting. I do worry that it might be a bit low grit. Will it really get me much further than a 1.2k DMT?

Originally Posted by IanS

Yeah, Aoto is looking like what I'll be wanting. I do worry that it might be a bit low grit. Will it really get me much further than a 1.2k DMT?

AOTO is rated as 2-3k , maybe even as low as 1k

It helps with sharpening, surely. Mainly it is a good place to go from synthetic to natural. By having shallower scratches, theoretically, one can sharpen to a finer eventual edge. You are mainly removing the grooves from the 1200 DMT. Then it is time to move on to the medium finishing hone to finish sharpening.

Since you have a 4k King, I don't think the Aoto will be of any help to bridge the gap to your finisher, and the gap between your 1.2k to your 4k shouldn't need anything inbetween - that's not too much of a jump unless the 4k is very slow.