Some Additional Advice on Shapton Stone progression based on what I already have.

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Looking for some more guidance regarding the Shapton Glass Stones. A few months ago, I purchased the 500 and 2000 so keep that in mind.

BTW, Thanks everyone for all the help you gave me on picking which stones to start out with. It was a huge help and I learned a lot.

https://www.bladeforums.com/threads...ning-dmt-coarse-enough.1540507/#post-17697849

I’ve now been using the 500/2K Combo for a couple months and I’m really liking them. I love the feedback and the feel of the stones. I’m able to get a great edge that will easily and cleanly slice newspaper and shave some arm hair. Plenty for what I need. But, I like learning and progressing so I want to add another finer grit stone to try out.

My thinking is to skip the 4K stone and jump up to the 6K. Not seeing how there would be that much of a discernable difference between the 2K and 4K? But would jumping from 2K to 8K be too much on the Shapton Glass stones? I’m thinking it might be and I should go with the 6K. But, I wanted to get some advice before spending the money. These suckers are not that cheap!

Thanks in advance for any help.
 
I've had the 2,4,8 & 16k for about 5 years. Due to the composition of these stones they are very fast when first lapped, so you can easily go from 2k to 8k and I would argue 2k to 16k, if you lap them immediately before use. (I use an Atoma 400). The sensible approach would be to buy the higher grit stone, and see if you imagine you need something in between after you have used it for a while.
 
ToddS said:
I've had the 2,4,8 & 16k for about 5 years. Due to the composition of these stones they are very fast when first lapped, so you can easily go from 2k to 8k and I would argue 2k to 16k, if you lap them immediately before use. (I use an Atoma 400). The sensible approach would be to buy the higher grit stone, and see if you imagine you need something in between after you have used it for a while.
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Ah, thanks. I need to take a look at the 8K. Not sure I want to jump up to 12K yet. I have an Atoma 140 that I'm using right now to lap. Wondering if that would be to aggressive for the 6K or 8K? Guess I could use my Coarse DMT?
 
I don't have many glass stones (all in the Edge Pro) . . . I can tell you more about the Shapton Pro bench stones . . . how ever on the Edge Pro I go from 1000 glass to 4000 glass (after using more coarse stones) and get just blazingly sharp, super hair whittling and pleasingly polished edges. Not high polish and flawless obviously but the performance of the edge is all that I could ask for and I am about a 95% polished edge person (meaning about 5% of the edges I use are toothy).

So what I am saying is 4000 many just do all you need and 6K or 8K, I would imagine, is going to blow you away.
 
The 4k Glass stone is one of the best 4k stones IMO, it produces a nice polish and exceptional sharpness that really puts it ahead of other stones. Truthfully, you will not be disappointed in any high grit SG stone and either the 4k or 6k would be a great addition. After the 2k you can jump as high as the 16k but IMO the 4k is more practical and produces more useable results.
 
Thanks for the advise everyone. I think the 4K would be fine but might jump up to the 6K so down the road the next jump won't be as drastic. I'm not looking for a mirror finish but a nice polished edge would be great. I can get that now on my Spyderco Ultra Fine stone but I want to be able to just use the Shaptons when desired.
 
Jason B. said:
The 4k Glass stone is one of the best 4k stones IMO, it produces a nice polish and exceptional sharpness that really puts it ahead of other stones. Truthfully, you will not be disappointed in any high grit SG stone and either the 4k or 6k would be a great addition. After the 2k you can jump as high as the 16k but IMO the 4k is more practical and produces more useable results.
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Jason, do you think my Atoma 140 would be to rough to flatten a 6K? I have a DMT coarse that while not ideal, I think could do the job.
 
The 140 is fine, just use light pressure at the end of lapping and it will smooth the surface. I know there are many that say the DMT coarse works but I have tried it many times myself and I can show you the missing spots of diamonds to prove it.
 
Jason B. said:
The 140 is fine, just use light pressure at the end of lapping and it will smooth the surface. I know there are many that say the DMT coarse works but I have tried it many times myself and I can show you the missing spots of diamonds to prove it.
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Thanks Jason. I'll give it a try once I get the next stone.
 
Sorry to bump an old thread.
Just wanted to say thanks as I found this information very useful!
I've been trying to decide between SG and Naniwa Pro.
I'm going to get the SG 500 and 2000 to start.
 
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