What are you hoping to achieve going from lapping film to stones?
Hi all, I'm looking at upgrading the lapping film in my honing armoury to some new stones but am having trouble deciding on one point. I already have a dual Naniwa 1000/3000 grit stone that has seen me good as a bevel setter and first progression stone, and i'm pretty much decided on a Chinese 12K natural stone as my finisher and a 5K Naniwa specialty stone as the next progression from the 3K.
I just can't decide if to go for a 8K or 10K Naniwa specialty stone between the 5K and 12K.
Any thoughts or advice?
Baz, It's pointless adding the 8K or 10K if you are going to the 12K after those, as long as you definitely know it's a 12K? Ideally, you should double the grit off every stone give or take, so If you have a progression that looks like 1K, 3K, 5K, 12K, that would be perfectly acceptable, adding an 8K or 10K would be a waste of cash in my opinion.
Well for better or worse i have pulled the trigger and ordered a King 6K stone and the Chinese natural 12K stone, so my progression will now look like 1K, 3K, 6K and 12K. From some of my online reading 1 micron lapping film is supposedly equivalent to 20-22K depending on where you read, so i may just keep the 1 micron lapping film in as well, seeing as 20K+ stones are hard to come by and extraordinarily expensive as well.
Thanks for all your input, gratefully received.
I have the 12k too, but I recently bought a 15k that really polishes the edge up, it only takes about 20 laps. It is a Reetec 15k from Amazon and is only £30.
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