Finer Stones or Stroping w/paste?
Hello all,
I am going to collect some vintage razors and sharpen them for my own use. I am a newbee at sharpening razors and have been reading a lot on your forum. I am not, however, a newbee to sharpening as I sharpen knives (on oil stones) and machine tools for my own use.
My question:
What are the tradeoffs on stroping with different paste grits vs using successively finer waterstones for finishing and polishing, like the Naniwa set?
I'm trying to decide if I should buy the entire Naniwa set and forget pastes, or buy only 1k, 4k and 8k waterstones and use a group of strops with different pastes.
Also, I don't have a feel for how an 8k (for instance) waterstone compares with a specific grit of paste - ie, what paste grit would be used following the 8k waterstone?
Regards,
Doug
Arizona