Decided to do a side by side honing progression comparison with just ONE difference, the finishing stone.
Plus I decided also to shave off the stone, no stropping, to see if I could tell the difference in the finishers.
Both russian 5/8's with hollow ground about the same age 1960's
start:
cretan hone with DMT slurry ( I am really digging this as a low grit stone one day I will try to shave off of it)
Welsh Thuringian with DMT slurry also digging this stone with tomo slurry.brings up keeness very quickly
Russian 1 finisher= La Veinette coticule on water
Russian 2 finisher = Escher on water
first off neither was great with no strop. so 20 laps on buffalo then
La veinette russian. strop make a HUGE difference. typical coticule smoothness.
Escher on Buffalo strop . Also very nice after shaving a bit with no stropping. Couldn't really tell the difference !
will strop them properly today and test again tomorrow.
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