Originally Posted by
John C Cox
So... Next question for my fellow Worksharp-o-philes...
What abrasives do you use and how fine? I was looking for some disks - and I realize I haven't really thought that much about the variety of different grit ratings out there based on the different scales... (Groan, another sharpening rathole..)
For example - the Worksharp Norton P1000 (European scale) is about a 500 grit ANSI - 20 micron... And to me - that seems fairly coarse..
The next step up is their micromesh 6 and 2 micron -That's a huge jump from the 20 micron P1000.... It feels like I need something like a P1500 in there (about halfway between the P1000 and the micromesh...)
You can save yourself a lot of time and effort if you use a coarse grit diamond plate on the WorkSharp to set your primary bevel and then use water stones to finish with a micro-bevel.
There's no need to polish the whole bevel of a chisel - all you need to polish is the about a mm of the edge.
Mike
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