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Hi J McNelly, That is a "big" jump, but I will try that on a future knife. The 500 grit stone is "icky" - I don't use it much. The 320 to 2k is easy to try - they are both splash and go, and I can try it on a practice knife too. If a knife isn't in "bad" shape, then I l...

Hi Just John, I already have green paste, and I don't get "hung up" on the subtleties of the grits once it has gotten to stropping. I know that various vendors of the green paste can have a variability in the grit sizes etc. Mine happens to be from Lee Valley, but that doesn't mean that it...

I have a variac and can slow it down - I have 2x of the 1x42's, and am trying to evolve to a 2-grit progression. I just HATE using the 1x42 on the edge.... I wanted to use it only on the bolster, and and really bad damage, or wear from overly aggressive use of a steel. I think that it is just part o...

Hi All, I have a small at-home knife sharpening business and I tend to get VERY badly damaged knives. The last set looked like they were serrated.... People couldn't believe the photos that I passed around.... So, they went to the 1x42 grinder (instead of the Atoma 140....) and then the SG320 But, t...

Hello - my name is Sean O'Keefe and I'm living in Canada, but I'm a US citizen and travel across the border a couple times a year. I have been 'accumulating' knives and stones for a few years now, and have started a small at-home knife sharpening "business". I am SO surprised by the state ...

Hi All, OK, I tried for a few minutes. I used Norton 3x Prosand 100grit first, and it took off all of the surface "bubbling", but like always, the Shapton Glass stones are REALLY hard, and after a couple minutes not much happened. I tried some 60 grit also, but it was similar. It didn't ma...

Hi All! Thank you for the replies, questions, and suggestions. No oil would have gotten on this. The sharpening flow is all waterstones. The discolorations on the surface might just be leftover metal from the surface of the stone. I use only reverse osmosis water on the stones when sharpening. At th...

Hi All, It has been a long time since I did any serious sharpening (a steel, a ceramic rod, and a strop have held us for a long time!). I got a Shapton Pro 2k and started a bit of a touch-up on some knives, and found this when I got my stones out... It is a Shapton Glass 320, that was put away wet, ...

Images below.

Didn't get far on the SG320 with the sandpaper!!

And another little question: When you flatten stones, do you COMPLETELY flatten, or do you leave stones like the KING pictured below? which is a hint to work on the edges a bit before doing full strokes across the middle??

Sean

Hi All, I think that this is my first post, but I've been lurking for a long time! I live in Ottawa, On, Canada, and I have started to do a lot more sharpening over the past year, and have recently started sharpening friends' knives. The result is that I am putting some wear on my stones, which mean...

nice chart links - thx

Hello All, I have been progressing in my accumulation of Japanese knives, but I and my wife have been using an old Joyce Chen SS CroMoly "cleaver" for many years, and we both happen to be more used to using more of a cleaver-style cutting technique. (195mm x 55 high at handle and ~62mm hig...