Thread: wi

Need a little expert advice.

I have an Ebay special I am trying to hone and it is giving me a little trouble. Most of the blade is 4000 sharp, but this one spot just doesn't seem to want to hone up. Under the microscope (this is my judge of sharp) he whole edge is straight except for about 3/16 of an inch where there are several microscopic nicks, and what appears to be a microscopic hole through the edge. Since this has been the problem spot I have given it about a couple of hundred strokes on the 4000 with some pressure yet I see no substantive change in this one area. I am at this point assuming I need to step down to a more coarse hone.

Now the question, given the following choices what would you hone or step to to get the edge to come up?

hard white Arkansas
medium grey Arkansas
coarse aluminum oxide stone
stick it out on the 4000

It being Christmas and me being tapped I don't want to buy anything if I don't absolutly have to.