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If shaving is strictly a utilitarian pursuit it might be nice, but for those of us who enjoy playing with hones and strops it would be less than fulfilling. Gotta feed the ADs. :)
All of the old...

I've had the full set of shapton pros (years ago) and the super stones, also years ago. All great stones. Never being satisfied with what I had I ended up moving those along to good homes and now...

Here is a thread from 2009 with what at first glance appears to be the same chart. The most up to date being in post #33 with some interesting banter in that thread.

Back then, going by the info...

If I'm not badly mistaken it was designed for plane blades and chisels, the Japanese variety primarily IMHO. Go to JapanTool dot com and check out some of their chisels and plane blades. The people...

I'm going to take it a step further :) When Randy told me to make sure I could get a good shave off the Norton 8k before moving up to the Shapton Pro 15k that I had at that time, I discovered I...

Years ago I had a set of Shapton professional stones from 1 through 30k. This was when I was starting out and I got too many hones too quickly. Anyway, using the shapton pros in a 5k/8k pyramid...