Waterstone Question

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rifleman3030

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Hey all, hows it going? I just got a set of choseras recently 400,1000,3000. Love the stones cutting and or polishing ability, and the question is, down the road I am most likely going to get a naniwa snow white 8k and was wondering If I needed a stone, say the chosera 5k, to bridge the gap.

Daniel
 
3k to 8k works fine but I would ask, for what reason do you want the 8k?

My Snow White is mainly used for Straight razors or chisels, I find it complete overkill on a knife though.
 
Jason B. said:
3k to 8k works fine but I would ask, for what reason do you want the 8k?

My Snow White is mainly used for Straight razors or chisels, I find it complete overkill on a knife though.
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Yeah. My max for most of my knives is 3K. Especially kitchen knives where I stop at 1k-2k.
 
straight razors I use 8k coti and above knives I stop at the approx. 4k blue Belgium. I saw no need for any more polish, it seems knives dull to fast in use at the 8k level.
 
buy a coti and an apache strata and enjoy the edges on the razors. I have used straights for over 40 yrs . I used to think the 8k Norton gave a good edge, now I doubt if my whiskers could stand an 8k edge.
 
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