Recent content by Chasingsharpness

Bump, JKI 800 reduced to £140 shipped to the UK.

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What adhesives are generally recommended when glueing stones together? I am considering glueing a shapton rockstar to a glass backing, or potentially even glueing two shapton rockstar stones back to back to create a combo stone and provide some support for each other after some wear. Any...

Naniwa Arata 800 sold

FSK 1000 - Sold

FSK 400 - Sold

Yeah it's possible it could have been the initial top layer of the stone, it was a brand new stone to be fair. I had given it a quick lap with an Atoma 140 but perhaps should have gone a bit further. Might take it to the SiC plate and give it another go to confirm after some more material...

Yeah sure, I've experimented with this one against a few other stones the last few days. They are supposed to be the same formulation as the Glass stones according to shapton. I don't have a glass 500 to compare side by side but based on early reports from others I believe this is probably...

JKi800 reduced to £150 FSK 400 & 1000 reduced to £250 each

Atoma 400 sold

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Every time

NSK 400 sold

Another classic to play around with this week. Will be comparing it against the Naniwa pro 400 and Shapton pro 1k.

Ordered a Shapton Rockstar from Amazon US to UK. Zero padding in the box. Courier threw it over a 6ft fence onto stone slabs in the back garden. Stone somehow miraculously survived. A testament to the durability of the rockstar stones. Amazon JP order earlier this week wasn't much better. No...