Originally Posted by
Patrick Chase
Hah! I didn't look closely and failed to notice that was DW's video. I stand by my contention that he's not doing a very good job of distributing the grinding across the wheel, but obviously the guy knows his sh*t. His work with cap irons in particular has helped a lot of people, me included.
The reason I was flippant about that post is because it was so obviously irrelevant to the OP's situation. The only reason I even brought up coarse stones in this thread was to explain why people with diamond plates have to break out the loose SiC every so often.
I too am an epic, irremediable sharpening ho. To wit:
80, 180, and 600 grit CBN wheels
Sigma Power 120, 400, 700 3F Carbon, 1000 hard, 2K, 6K, 13K (the 13K was rebranded an S-II)
Sigma Select II 240, 1000, 1200, 3K, 6K, 10K
Shapton Pro 120, 220, 320, 1000, 1500, 2K, 5K, 8K, 15K
Shapton Glass 500 "2X" (the one with 10 mm of stone)
Suehiro Cerax 320 (the 50 mm thick one. Better than any of the coarse Shaptons...)
Bester 220, 400, 700, 1200, 2000
Imanishi 4K, 8K
Naniwa Snow White 8K
Takeshi Kuroda 10K mystery resin stone (a VERY good stone for the money, as DW himself pointed out)
Tormek T7
Delta variable-speed 8" grinder (with Norton 3X AlOx wheels)
Rikon half-speed grinder (with CBN wheels)
Norton translucent Arkansas (the 3/4" thick one that Joel peddles)
Norton combo India stone
Dan's soft and hard-black Arkansas
Atoma #140, #400, #600, and #1200 plates, including duplicates of the #140 and #400 so that I can dedicate one of each for flattening and metal
Assorted DMT and Eze-Lap plates, though I've been giving those away to friends now that I'm using Atomas
Shapton glass diamond plate
A large assortment of diamond, AlOx, and chromium dioxide lapping films, both PSA and plain
A large assortment of diamond pastes and mild steel plates
An assortment of SiC and AlOx grits for lapping
I know I'm missing some stuff, but you get the idea. Some of the stones listed above have been mostly worn down and then converted to slips.