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Yea, .03 is not bad, easily could have been honed with an X stroke.

Just go slow and focus on lightly shifting the honing point.

I honed a brand new TI for a guy last night that was easily that...

Most razors are not straight, but it does not really matter, you can hone them anyway, it just takes some maneuvering of the blade so it is in contact with the stone using an X stroke.

Unless the...

Does look better, but you still need a mid-grit stone.

You’re not the first one to break a razor, it is how we learn… unfortunately…

Funk, so what happened?

Put the best edge you can on it, then send it to me. I’ll photograph the edge with a USB scope and re-hone it for you…

See what you think.

PM me.

Marty

Funk, your black may still be a finisher, Blacks and translucent do not leave a traditional stria, but a kasumi, hazy pattern, which is why you cannot grit equivalent rate them. They will or can...

By the way, don’t lap an Ark with a diamond plate, Arks will eat a diamond plate and the HF plates are too small for your stone.

Loose grit is best, but Wet & Dry sand paper will work.

I use...

And if you like your doctor… you can keep your doctor…

Yea…Not so much.

Dude, relax we are trying to help you. You do not need to defend everything you write…

Really we are a friendly bunch…...

So the size is good

Probably 3X8. Any natural does not have a grit because no one was there filtering the grit when they were created, so they contain random grits.

You can rate them as grit...

Now were getting somewhere…

Diamonds are very aggressive especially in low grits and cause deep stria that in turn cause a rough edge.

ALL that stria needs to be removed from the bevel with a...

“That would be a big jump, no I brought it back up through to the black (200, 300, 400, 600, soft ark, then black)”

Assuming this is what you have available, these are all natural stones, except...

Right… so for sure you removed the edge. What did you use to set the bevel?

You can not polish an edge that does not exist.

You do not have an edge, what you are looking at is the bevel, an edge is where the bevels meet all the way from heel to toe.

If you had an edge or close to it, the 600 grit diamond plate wiped it...