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bringing up slurry and hearing about possible edge chips
i neve could under stand how slurry being infront of the edge makes it sharper after all the grit is running into the edge of the blade...

i dont see it so much as loading the stone with steel but more of braking down some of the abrasive and letting it fill in the low spots as the hone drys

sure i could let it dry and hone till the...

well then this pic will help you see why i back back to the N8k dry

i did the whole edge 8K dry then came back over it as a simular angle to make sure i caught all the scratches in the same...

so any one done it

what i have found is that if you let the stone dry out a bit while honing that it starts to load and poilish much better


so now when i hone i run from DMT1200 norton 4/8k...