My humble whetstone information archive |
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Natural Japanese whetstone naming terminology | |||
Imagery archive | |||
Sharpening Process - Scratch patterns showing evolution of the edge on a blade from 1000 grit whet stone to 0.5 micron (30,000 grit) abrasive film | |||
SP1 - scratch patterns on a blade from different synthetic and natural stones (Linear motions) | |||
SP2 - scratch patterns on a blade from different synthetic and natural stones (Circular motions) | |||
Burr - Huge burr resulting from trailing and leading edge strokes on 1000 grit stone. The burr was made excessively large on purpose to clearly show what it looks like. | |||
Cosera stones on Edge Pro - Sharpening process using edge pro with chosera stone set 400 - 10,000 grit plus a glass blank with 0.3 micron paper. | |||
Chosera stones freehand - Sharpening process using chosera Edge pro sized stones, but using them freehand. | |||
Stone Types - A write up on different types of sharpening stones. | |||
Stone pictures | |||
Iyoto - Rough Iyoto stone | |||