Thread: Blue and Yellow Belgian Hone help

Paul
Thank you for your post.
Let me explain a little my response to OP. he basically said he is getting harsh edge off coticule.
there is only 3 ways you can get harsh edge from hone.
1 is too much pressure.
2. is stone is coarse
3. is you are perfectionist and don't stop when you should stop. edge gets so fine then start to broke down.
This happens mostly fine finishing synthetic hones.

Now OP had 1 of first 2.(Jimmy did confirm about the stones that was fine stone)
by using too much pressure someone could bring 8k level stone to 4k level.
Now if someone knows how 8k should shave he will say right away 4k is harsh to shave with.
Lets say a lot people do use pressure to set the bevel.
Only we have to count when they to use pressure they do this.
1k lets say NANIWA and use pressure set the bevel.
Next this person uses 3k naniwa then 5k etc so on.
what happens is this.
his mistake which he made on 1k level using too much pressure(lazy peoples honing i belong too) will get slowly in 3k level a little then 5k level.
If person uses fine coticule and puts pressure to set level he will have an edge so bad condition that to bring this edge to 8 k level will take whole a lot time.
this happens because he used too much pressure to set the bevel.
Some one can test this just putting too much pressure any synthetic hone and look the edge under the scope.
then using same stone without pressure and see the differences.
i hope i was clear.
hope this helps.

Originally Posted by richmondesi

Sham,

Instead of using the "Thanks" button, I wanted to take the time to actually write out how much I appreciate you posting this.

You demonstrated that with different technique and pressure (of course, I know a lot of guys who use pressure to set a bevel), something you thought was impossible was actually doable.

This goes a long way towards helping us all understand that what we personally think is right is not necessarily reality for everyone else.

Best wishes, Sir.