Recent content by kayman67

They aren't available that way for public. You need to ask for some.

It's almost impossible to answer this as there was more than one type available, quite different behaviour.

That's a very good thing. Yeah, but maybe things don't really happen as imagined. With these cutting blades, you deal with stress, fatigued alloy and so on. That's what pushing the sharpening process one way or another and not the lack of something else.

Very. But as far as knives go, I had countless encounters with huge burrs on mass produced blades, enough to consider that there was no deburr stage whatsoever.

It is pretty close.

I saw an improvement with stones I clean and wipe as dry as possible after. But won't completely remove the problem.

Kramer developed cracks much slower and to less extent. Kinda confirms the harder nature I noticed, taking less water. It's a very complicated topic. I wonder just how much the water itself (as it's not exactly pure) has an effect.

They do exhibit some edge cracking or spider webbing, just not as obvious as Chosera. Makes no difference while using, can't feel a thing with razors.

Yes, it will crack just like the Chosera does. I think, in the right circumstances, any water stone has the potential to crack. I've seen a few Shapton Glass lately doing this, in various countries, with no particular scenario that could have been identified as common, making things harder to...

Yes, both have spider webbing cracks. I just epoxy most stones these days and don't worry about it.

Gold Dollar, but it's a project razor most of the time, unless someone else did it first. I'd say older not so famous razors or kamisori are still better and affordable. About how the razor sits, if the razor has a decent geometry, you're in business. But often enough, that's not happening. So...

It can be done. Many razor guys use the King 8000 nagura for slurry and honing with what that nagura has to provide and get very good results for the given stage. Also, I don't ever remember having any kind of grit from the Naniwa cleaning stone into Chosera 3000. Always clean and smooth. When...

With diamond plates, it's a good idea to use them with some harder stones before, like a hard arkansas or some other novaculite. But those particles will eventually go away. With coarser naguras, these would need to be porous enough to give some grit themselves. Mostly doesn't happen. And even...

No real risk. Very hard to predict behaviour unless both would be known to us. It might do nothing or something, good or bad, hard to predict what exactly. It would be much easier to try it.

Naguras can clean, can make slurry, can change the stones behaviour to some extent (in rare instances quite a lot). As stated already, it's not very easy to just talk about them in general terms as far as possible performance would be concerned. You need very specific combinations. One...