Trying To Make A Kit Of Both Chosera And Shapton SG

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I currently have 3 stones that I use for all my sharpening. And I've been looking into filling the gaps to be able to get a more refined edge.

Right now, my kit is Chosera 400, 1k, 5k. I was going to to just fill in the gaps with more Choseras, then I happened upon Shapton Glass and all the praise it's gotten. Simply dumping my current Choseras and replacing them completely with SG doesn't seem like a very good move financially and was hoping to avoid doing. So, I'd like to fill in the gaps with SG. This may also provide me a good chance to compare the two series for my self. I was hoping that getting say... 500, 2k, and 3k would accomplish this.

What do you all think? Should these be able to do it for me? Or should another combination of SG stones be better?
 
I currently use a Chosera 400 --> Shapton Pro 1000 --> Shapton Pro 2000 --> Shapton Glass 4000 --> Naniwa Snow White 8000.

To be honest I'm the least pleased with the Shapton Glass 4000. It works fine, it just doesn't "feel" very good and it seems to glaze up quite easily.

Looking at your progression, I think that a Shapton Pro 2000 (my favorite of the Shapton stones so far) would help to refine the scratch pattern between the 1k and 5k Chosera. I don't think that you would need a 500 or a 3000 grit Shapton.
 
I would respectfully disagree. I love the SG. Try a SG 2K and 8K for fill in.

I see no need to go from 2K, to 3K, to 4K to 5K. You've already got 5K covered, and the jump from 2K to 5K is not difficult. I think you will really like the 8K.
 
Awesome, thanks! This simplifies things and saves me some money.

Also, sorry if this goes off topic, I noticed people mentioning that different series grits are quite different despite being the same number. For example, something like Chosera 10k is equivalent to Shapton something 16k. Are they referring speed or the level of refinement?
 
w31216kbl said:
Awesome, thanks! This simplifies things and saves me some money.

Also, sorry if this goes off topic, I noticed people mentioning that different series grits are quite different despite being the same number. For example, something like Chosera 10k is equivalent to Shapton something 16k. Are they referring speed or the level of refinement?
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My only experience with Chocera is the 10K. and IME, it's a bit finer and faster than my 8K and coarser than my 15K.

IMHO, it really is a true 10K.
 
A member here made a wonderful "Grand Unified Grit Chart" that has been posted in the stickies:

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