Thread: The Famous/Infamous Norton 4/8 "JaNorton 2012"

I had to be gone for awhile due to the military and had to drop out of this. the things I picked up were many but the two bigest are:
I need to push my 4/8 combo more prior to moving on to the 12 then 16K.
I Love the shaves off the 16K way more then the 8K. Sue me I'm spoiled.......
Paul

Originally Posted by Str8Shooter

I had to be gone for awhile due to the military and had to drop out of this. the things I picked up were many but the two bigest are:
I need to push my 4/8 combo more prior to moving on to the 12 then 16K.
I Love the shaves off the 16K way more then the 8K. Sue me I'm spoiled.......
Paul

I am getting more that you have to compete one step before moving on. If you don't have a good 4k the 8k isn't going to work well. I don't see any posts that say that the 8k is the perfect edge but most say it is good.

I think that maybe the terminology is misleading. For example 'finishing stone". You can finish on a 1k if you want. I think they should be called refining steps. I say steps because I would include pastes, strops, etc.

The edge is set at the 4k level. [I am open for arguments about 1k!] Where you choose to stop refining and "finish" that edge is your choice.

Although it can be better the 8k is not a bad place to stop.

Tim

After shaving off the Norton every day for two weeks, I revisited a nice 30k edge using my FON Golden Star, just to check how it felt after getting used to the Norton.

And it sure was nicer, no doubt about that, but it's not a world of difference, I have no problem going back to the 8k tomorrow.