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01-02-2010, 02:19 PM #7
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Thanked: 346It was a bigger problem back when the standard hone that everybody used was the Norton 4k/8k hone, and we shaved straight off of that hone. Simply stropping on chrome oxide is enough to fix most overhoned situations, but back then even chrome oxide wasn't in common use. The pyramid method was designed to minimise the risk of overhoning on the norton by alternating between two very different honing surfaces that tended to break up each other's overhoning issues, but the same thing would happen when you left the norton for a s15p/s16gs/s30p/s30gs, nakayama, coticule, or escher - except that these were either fairly rare (all), not recognized yet (nakayama, escher), or not yet on the market in a meaningful way (S30p, S30gs, nakayama).