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Great pic!
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Thank you sirGreat pic!
Excellent @ModRQC and thank you for posting!
I'm really impressed by how light your scratches seem to be on the low grits. Are you using much pressure?
Ah well I guess it goes down to the dirty trick! Look at the shot out of Nanohone or even Cerax 320, where none or little of the trick was used.
But still I guess experience helps a bit. You talked about pressure. Well once upon a time I just went crazy forcefully on coarse stones. Of course it was fast and my BTE got crazy thin, but... It's not how they should be used however. Mud and lighter pressure is a must. But also learning to apply the most pressure BTE. Sort of using the clad line as the pressure point. Carbon core will always be keener to get polished than the cladding. With SS clad the notion is crucial, but even with iron clad it helps a lot.
IDK but glad if it is!
Looking good!Wakui update: lightly etched and sharpened
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SG320 did the honors, SG500 and Morihei 4K waiting in the wing.
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Choil without a mushy edge remnant on top...
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The handle - where that other piece of #320 sandpad was used.
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Munetoshi.
Not perfect but definitely good enough for today. Touch up after trying to bring out the banding on my Shihan.
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Don't feel too inadequate - this is about as good as I get.Nice!
Got me feeling all inadequate now.
How do you find razor honing? I expected it to be super challenging based on all the stuff I’d read an borderline violent arguments had about it online. I personally just didn’t find it that hard… angle guide is pretty much built in after allUnsolicited advice. Don't take up razor honing. It'll turn you into an obsessive weirdo.
Speaking on behalf of a friend.
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Getting to "good enough" was easy for exactly the reason you say. Getting to HHT 4/5 appears to be my Achilles heel.How do you find razor honing? I expected it to be super challenging based on all the stuff I’d read an borderline violent arguments had about it online. I personally just didn’t find it that hard… angle guide is pretty much built in after all
the only difficult things about razor honing are knowing when you are finished with a stone and ready to move onto the next, and dealing with razors with geometry issues(rolling x strokes are your friend here). synthetics make things braindead easy. hard jnats have a learning curve.How do you find razor honing? I expected it to be super challenging based on all the stuff I’d read an borderline violent arguments had about it online. I personally just didn’t find it that hard… angle guide is pretty much built in after all
can confirm, it does turn you into an obsessive weirdo.Unsolicited advice. Don't take up razor honing. It'll turn you into an obsessive weirdo.
Speaking on behalf of a friend.
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with the usb microscope i use, the edges look black when they are highly polished.That's a pretty killer edge. May I ask how you got there? (Asking for a friend)
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