Thread: Found this graph...

I found this graph (for knives) the other night. Do you guys think it is applicable to straights? If it is, it's interesting to see where the Norton 4/8K fits in.

http://users.ameritech.net/knives/speed.htm

Originally Posted by Jimbo

I found this graph (for knives) the other night. Do you guys think it is applicable to straights? If it is, it's interesting to see where the Norton 4/8K fits in.

http://users.ameritech.net/knives/speed.htm

The Norton is a water stone. Hense the navy blue.

That's what I mean - the 8k looks like it gets things sharper than the diamond. Do you reckon we could do one of these for straight-specific honing media?

I think the chart is telling us what most of us already know, that stones that are slow to cut produce the sharpest edge in the finest grit. If they had extended the waterstones down to 12K or 14 K that would have gone off the chart on both the speed and sharpness. Thats why most of us use the norton 4K/8K.

Don't show that chart to the guys who like their diamond pasted strops!

Also to be fair to the diamonds they just classify fine and extra fine but how does that relate to the actual mesh size. Seems like they are comparing apples to oranges there.

Yeah, that's what I was wondering - if it just showed what people already knew. Although, some people assimilate info. visually, so it might be useful somewhere along the line.

Re the diamond - I'm not casting aspersions, but did you read the fine print at the bottom of the graph...?

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

Don't show that chart to the guys who like their diamond pasted strops!

Also to be fair to the diamonds they just classify fine and extra fine but how does that relate to the actual mesh size. Seems like they are comparing apples to oranges there.

I suspect their definition of "extra fine" is quite a bit different from ours.