What Grit Paper For Deglazing Arks?

[HumbleHomeCook]

Not looking to flatten and no heavy build up, just want something to remove light glazing and routine maintenance of same.

What grit do you folks like for soft and hard?

I understand powder for heavier work but not looking for that here.

 

[Legion74]

240 grit paper for soft, 240 + 600 for translucent.

For flattening I use 60 grit powder, followed by finer paper.

 

[TB_London]

3m make diamond pads for glass/tile/ stone worktops that work well for quickly refreshing stones think they’re called diapads.
If going the sandpaper route you’ll want alox or ceramic abrasive around 120-240g

 

[stringer]

Not looking to flatten and no heavy build up, just want something to remove light glazing and routine maintenance of same.

What grit do you folks like for soft and hard?

I understand powder for heavier work but not looking for that here.

Gonna suggest something a little unconventional. A green scour pad works pretty good if you're just looking to empty the pores

 

[Brian Weekley]

I use 220 grit sandpaper on mine.

 

[HumbleHomeCook]

Gonna suggest something a little unconventional. A green scour pad works pretty good if you're just looking to empty the pores

We used scrub brushes/pads and gasoline as a kid.

 

[cotedupy]

For glazing (rather than clogging) I would use something like sandpaper/powder/atoma personally.

But in terms of grit and surface finish it's very much up to whatever someone likes really. I tend to go quite low for knives. 80 or 120, something like that - get 'em going properly!

 

[Mr Kooby Shemayrew]

I have a black Ark which I prefer burnished. Some might call it glazed. Super smooth. Perfect for final finishing. It requires a very good pre-finisher before going to this step though.

I have a Dan’s hard Ark. This is not a Norton “hard” and is probably one small step down from a True Hard. Most closely resembles a 5K synth. I have one side lapped to 1200 SiC and the other side to 800 SiC. This is my favorite finishing stone for high quality knives.

I also have a Dan’s washita that I picked up recently. This is IMHO real close to a Soft Ark. I lapped one side to 1200 SiC. It was slow in abrading a quality carbon knife but left a good aggressive edge. On a cheap stainless knife it failed to produce a workable edge. I ended up roughing it up with an 80 grit cheap Chinese diamond plate. After that the surface was about equivalent to finishing on 120 SiC. This produced a very good toothy edge on the cheap knife albeit a little slow. A coarse diamond plate, or synth stone could have done the same job in less time.