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[cudgee]

Made a jig to use the Tormek support and knife jigs with the paper wheels. It's possibly overbuilt.

Like your creativity. After seeing all the creative ideas that members come up with in the Maintenance & Tinkering forum, decided to do some tinkering myself. Always been intrigued by the electronic sharpness testers, but cannot justify the purchase price, nor can i afford one. Bought one of these plus some recommended fishing line and had some bits and pieces lying around. I'm not saying it is completely accurate but i reckon it's close. A double sided razor blade straight out of the packet scored 18 grams, and a small cheap stainless steel cleaver that i reprofiled down to 12 DPS and is sharp, scored 100 gram, still have some experimenting to do, but all up it has cost me about $17 US. A bess tester over here is about $470 AUS or $320US.

 

[tiguy7]

Reposting the jig from #7 above and showing some of the “stones” used with it.View attachment 1863748View attachment 1863749

 

[cudgee]

Like your creativity. After seeing all the creative ideas that members come up with in the Maintenance & Tinkering forum, decided to do some tinkering myself. Always been intrigued by the electronic sharpness testers, but cannot justify the purchase price, nor can i afford one. Bought one of these plus some recommended fishing line and had some bits and pieces lying around. I'm not saying it is completely accurate but i reckon it's close. A double sided razor blade straight out of the packet scored 18 grams, and a small cheap stainless steel cleaver that i reprofiled down to 12 DPS and is sharp, scored 100 gram, still have some experimenting to do, but all up it has cost me about $17 US. A bess tester over here is about $470 AUS or $320US.

Hunted around to find a better cutting medium for this, found some online, i feel it is more accurate, and a lot easier to apply and set up. Being doing some testing with different blades and edge bevel angles and higher grit finishes. I am in no way saying it is as good or as accurate as the bess tester, but for my requirements it does the job and gives me a good guide for my needs.

 

[garry3]

Some of my stuff, most of these are naturals, coticules, jnats, slates, various novaculites...

 

[cudgee]

Some of my stuff, most of these are naturals, coticules, jnats, slates, various novaculites...

Fantastic, I'm in heaven.

 

[WóðanaZ]

These photos are about 5 years old but still show a good 85-90% of all my stuff. Missing is a full set of Atomas, spare sheets, and various Asano Nagura, etc, etc.

Shapton M24 line

Shaptkn Ha No Kuromaku

Naniwa Chosera (+ 10,000 Super)

Naniwa Junpaku and Kagaku A3

Naniwa Aotoishi #2000, Kitayama #8000, Spyderco, Fallkniven, DMT etc.

Shapton, Suehiro flattening, Nagura, various polishing stuff.

Maintenance stuff

Diamond Compounds for spyderco knives mostly.

And a little portable sharpening station I made

 

[Stockman]

These photos are about 5 years old but still show a good 85-90% of all my stuff. Missing is a full set of Atomas, spare sheets, and various Asano Nagura, etc, etc.

Shapton M24 line

Shaptkn Ha No Kuromaku

Is there much difference in the corresponding Shapton K24 and the Pro's ( Kuromaku ) stones??
They look very similar in color.
I primarily use the Pro's for 80% of all my sharpening and get great results.
The 2000 grit Green is my touch up stone, leaves an awesome edge for most of the knives I use, just the right amount of shaving sharpness with a touch of toothy bite..

 

[WóðanaZ]

Is there much difference in the corresponding Shapton K24 and the Pro's ( Kuromaku ) stones??
They look very similar in color.
I primarily use the Pro's for 80% of all my sharpening and get great results.
The 2000 grit Green is my touch up stone, leaves an awesome edge for most of the knives I use, just the right amount of shaving sharpness with a touch of toothy bite..

There likely is as I think it safe to assume that Shapton wouldn’t make different lines with dedicated names and styles with the same identical material; however, if there is it’s so trivial that I haven’t noticed it. They are both magnesia bond. However (again), considering the Shapton Glass series, it wouldn’t altogether surprise me if the materials were identical.

The M24 is also available as the M15, which is cheaper. M = millimeters, and the number refers to how many. I got the set from Japan as I’ve never seen them for sale elsewhere. The M15 also has a #12000 stone available, which isn’t in the M24.

The #2000 is a very nice stone. Shapton make one of, if not the best, synthetic waterstones in my experience. Naniwas Chosera are fantastic as well but the two differ in feel and rate of abrasion from stone to stone.

 

[cudgee]

These photos are about 5 years old but still show a good 85-90% of all my stuff. Missing is a full set of Atomas, spare sheets, and various Asano Nagura, etc, etc.

Shapton M24 line

Shaptkn Ha No Kuromaku

Naniwa Chosera (+ 10,000 Super)

Naniwa Junpaku and Kagaku A3

Naniwa Aotoishi #2000, Kitayama #8000, Spyderco, Fallkniven, DMT etc.

Shapton, Suehiro flattening, Nagura, various polishing stuff.

Maintenance stuff

Diamond Compounds for spyderco knives mostly.

And a little portable sharpening station I made

WOW, that is a collection. You have some beautiful stones there my friend.

 

[WóðanaZ]

WOW, that is a collection. You have some beautiful stones there my friend.

Yeah, it’s all great stuff and I’m grateful for all of it.

I’m quite the fan of Japanese Synthetics.

 

[garry3]

These photos are about 5 years old but still show a good 85-90% of all my stuff. Missing is a full set of Atomas, spare sheets, and various Asano Nagura, etc, etc.

Shapton M24 line

Shaptkn Ha No Kuromaku

Naniwa Chosera (+ 10,000 Super)

Naniwa Junpaku and Kagaku A3

Naniwa Aotoishi #2000, Kitayama #8000, Spyderco, Fallkniven, DMT etc.

Shapton, Suehiro flattening, Nagura, various polishing stuff.

Maintenance stuff

Diamond Compounds for spyderco knives mostly.

And a little portable sharpening station I made

Are you using those nagura to polish?

 

[WóðanaZ]

Are you using those nagura to polish?

Sometimes I take some Nagura powder (that’s what’s in the container) and use it to polish. I mix it with a little water, place a small piece of folded paper on my finger tip and polish the blade. I do the same with other stone powder of various grits. I use Diamond compounds to do the same. If you polish out each irregular scratch pattern in each grit range the result is a flawless mirror on the whole blade. By whole blade I mean saber, convex, and scandi blades.

However, I mostly just use it as intended.

 

[garry3]

Sometimes I take some Nagura powder (that’s what’s in the container) and use it to polish. I mix it with a little water, place a small piece of folded paper on my finger tip and polish the blade. I do the same with other stone powder of various grits. I use Diamond compounds to do the same. If you polish out each irregular scratch pattern in each grit range the result is a flawless mirror on the whole blade. By whole blade I mean saber, convex, and scandi blades.

However, I mostly just use it as intended.

I was just curious. I see them used for Kasumi finishes as well as sharpening progressions but usually with a natural base stone. Naguras, finger stones, it's an interesting subject and I see some beautiful work being done that I can appreciate even though I'm not into polishing myself.
I have been wanting to experiment with naguras but have been spending my lunch money on other hobbies. I will eventually get around to them though.

 

[Spats McGee]

The Gatco system that I started with didn’t get in the picture. But suffice it to say that I have more and better gear than when I started. Y’all are bunch of ENABLERS!