I got some honing equipment in the mail over the past week. I got a Naniwa 10k synthetic and an Atoma #600 diamond plate to use as a flattener/lapper.
I don’t have any straight razors yet, but spent some time on one of my kitchen knives. I need to set the bevel of the knife, and even the #600 seems to be too fine to do the work quickly! But that’s ok, at least I can play around with it and maybe eventually get the bevel set (using a guide clip).
Lapping the synthetic stone was a little scary! It felt like I was taking a lot of material off, but of course in reality I’m not. I stopped after a little while but I’m going to draw pencil lines on it and go at it again to make sure it’s actually all the way flat.
I got some honing equipment in the mail over the past week. I got a Naniwa 10k synthetic and an Atoma #600 diamond plate to use as a flattener/lapper.
I don’t have any straight razors yet, but spent some time on one of my kitchen knives. I need to set the bevel of the knife, and even the #600 seems to be too fine to do the work quickly! But that’s ok, at least I can play around with it and maybe eventually get the bevel set (using a guide clip).
Lapping the synthetic stone was a little scary! It felt like I was taking a lot of material off, but of course in reality I’m not. I stopped after a little while but I’m going to draw pencil lines on it and go at it again to make sure it’s actually all the way flat.
For knives, this is pretty good advice
Cool, I’ll check it out!