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The Arashiyama 1000 arrived yesterday. It lapped quickly and has a grabbier feel more like the Chocera 2K than the King (I don't know why I said Ice Bear - that was just wrong).

It made pretty...

I had been thinking about this Arashiyama 1K stone. When it was relisted on eBay, I bought it. So, I will have that to compare to the Ice Bear and the Chocera.

I haven't found a lot on this one,...

I just bought an Ice Bear 1000 last week . I was at Woodcraft and it was time to have a synthetic 1K.

I decided to buy the Chocera 2K from Chef Knives To Go. They are located here in Wisconsin....

If you look at the grit you might go 1000, 2000, 4000, 8000

That corresponds (roughly) in microns to 17, 8, 3, 1.

If you take the 8 (2K) out of there, you could make the argument that jumping...

Just had a thought.

I expect someone would want to know why I was thinking about adding a 2K to the 1K.

There is some thought that when you are designing a progression you should focus on...

Well, I just happened to walk into Woodcraft Sunday night.

I noticed they had the flat granite slab so I picked it up for lapping my karasu as it is a little big for the DMT to do a good job.
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just to muddy the waters further, I ran across an Arashiyama 1000 grit stone which I believe are a combination of abrasives from natural stones and artificial abrasives.

Currently I am using a tiger coticule with slurry as a medium finisher.

Kind of like using a race horse (maybe a quarter horse) as a pack mule. It will do it, but, even while it does, you can tell...

Bringing this up again, I am looking for a lower grit hone to replace my DMT. I just don't like the feel.

My requirements (in no particular order):

natural stone feel

relatively fast cutter...