Thread: king japanese waterstone 4000 grit..

hello people i have won on ebay this watersone... but it is not a natural stone....there's much important??

some people told me that the finishing stone (8000,12,000) should be always a NATURAL stone because don t remove much metal and refine the edge......for lower grit 4000 is not really an important factor ..

thanks

Don't worry about it. Whether it's artificial or natural, if you're careful you won't overhone the blade. If I were you I'd either get an 8k stone or an 8k and a paddle. Actually it might be an interesting experiment to do pyramids with 4k and a real fine finisher. Has anyone tried that?

i have:
4000 grit watertone
belgian coticule
pasted paddle (maestro livi) with green paste

green paste and belgian coticule have the same grit??

The way I'd work with what you have there is establish the initial bevel with the 4k and then do 4k/yellow pyramids. Once you get it as sharp as you can with that setup, give it a few passes on the paddle.

Since yellow coticule cuts slower than Norton 8k, I'd modify the number of trips on the coticule to match that. So if you'd do 1x4k and 5x8k on the Norton, do 1x4k stone, 8xcoticule.

should i pass on the green paste on the final step?

thanks

I don't know which green paste you are talking about. I am using a mix of 0.5 micron Chromium Oxide abrasive powder and strop dressing as an abrasive paste for my leather bench hone. It's greenish in color.