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Yes, it works and it's easy! The only hard part is the tendency to use too much 77 adhesive (very messy - so little it needed). Any 1" wide by 6" stone will work. I've used EZE-Lap's 41XC, 42C, and an 80 grit 'ruby' stone from Congress Tools with great success (well, the 80 grit stone isn't recommended, but it stuck to the stone blank easily enough - it just shed worn stone swarf on the blade so it could scratch up areas the stone wasn't directly touching). cbwx34 has done it with
several Congress Tools polishing stones. Boride Abrasives makes some good polishing stones, too (they're similar to the ones EdgePro uses). The one caveat is stone height. EdgePro's stock stones are 5/32" thick and most places closest stones are 1/4" thick and the 41XC is thicker than 5/32" thick.
It's pretty hard to outpick a better stone than Ben Dale, though. He's done his homework.
On the polishing tapes, I go to
www.toolsforworkingwood.com and use their 5 micron SiC and 1 and 0.3 micron AO lapping films and a paper cutter.
If you really want to loose it and pay for your addiction, other places sell AO and diamond lapping films as fine as 0.05 microns (aka 400,000 mesh
) and get edges which can whittle red blood cells.
Here goes another order!