Thread: C12k questions, how many passes??

Guys a bit off topic maybe, but I noticed that for the very
hard stones,like the chinese guangxi hone(CGH), the hardness
of the steel determines how many passes one would need. Now
this comes from using plane blades, not kamisoris.

The softer steel, high carbon 58-61 HRC, was like it was gliding
on the CGH, it did not feel like polishing at all. Basically almost
nothing was happening.Only by creating slurry with nagura I was
able to polish on the CGH.

When I used harder steel(63-64HRC) I was able to sharpen without
needing any nagura slurry. The harder steel was creating a minimum
amount of slurry on the CGH which made it work, whereas the softer
steel could not do this at all it and nothing was happening, hence requiring
a nagura slurry.

Make sense?