Decided to stop delaying and even out the bevels on my 210mm Carter -he called it a yanagi but being double beveled it's more like a short suji/ large petty. Being the SFGZ line deep scratches had been left in the finish and I wanted to even it all out
Initial finish
Started with 400 chosera until the bevel was flat and even, this took longer than expected as there were a number of over grinds in the edge, but once these were gone it was relatively quick through 1k chosera, 4k king, unbranded 6k, jck 8k.
Starting with the 400
Over grind near tip
Initially I was planning to put a mirror bevel on, but quite liked the hazy finish the king stone put on and I had some finger stones WillC had given me to have a play with so decided to give these a go.
King 4k finish
Trying to show hazy and bright mirror finish from finger stones
Pretty happy with the results, put an 8k microbevel on then stropped with CrO loaded balsa and it cuts like a beast
Next to another SFGZ, just need to rebuild the blue patina on the core.....
Initial finish
Started with 400 chosera until the bevel was flat and even, this took longer than expected as there were a number of over grinds in the edge, but once these were gone it was relatively quick through 1k chosera, 4k king, unbranded 6k, jck 8k.
Starting with the 400
Over grind near tip
Initially I was planning to put a mirror bevel on, but quite liked the hazy finish the king stone put on and I had some finger stones WillC had given me to have a play with so decided to give these a go.
King 4k finish
Trying to show hazy and bright mirror finish from finger stones
Pretty happy with the results, put an 8k microbevel on then stropped with CrO loaded balsa and it cuts like a beast
Next to another SFGZ, just need to rebuild the blue patina on the core.....