05-04-2017, 05:11 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-04-2017, 05:16 PM by Mark Reich.)
Yes Sir, Mr. Rupert. I'm about to lose my marbles with everything that's going on. I'm not bored!
I applied two coats of my longstanding favorite compound, 16um (1000 grit) poly diamond, water base emulsion, to each hone. The first coat took 22-23 drops, the second coat took 17-18 drops. The emulsion is fairly viscous, so the drops are big.
To give you some perspective, 40 drops on seven 3x8" hones took almost exactly one ounce of compound. Not too bad really. That's only about $5 worth of compound per hone.
It gets considerably better with the second application. Doesn't take as much compound, and it lasts probably close to twice as long because most of the diamonds from the first coat are still there, and the leather is broken in.
It will be fun to see how long these hones remain effective. I put about 5x as much compound on each hone as Ken Schwartz puts on one of his kangaroo hones. We had a very lengthy discussion on it this morning!
Ken and I can analyze for hours. I know it sounds totally crazy to virtually everyone, but we were figuring how many pieces of grit per square inch between 16um compound and his finest compound, which is .005um. 5 nanometers! Think of that! You can almost polish DNA with it.
Over 3 m-m-m-m-million grit! Over a trillion pieces of grit in a 2oz bottle.
Kinda mind blowing, but I'm a lot more concerned about how many pieces of 45 micron diamond there are in a bottle. And 80 micron. Got a bottle of each on the way, plus another bottle of 16um.
I applied two coats of my longstanding favorite compound, 16um (1000 grit) poly diamond, water base emulsion, to each hone. The first coat took 22-23 drops, the second coat took 17-18 drops. The emulsion is fairly viscous, so the drops are big.
To give you some perspective, 40 drops on seven 3x8" hones took almost exactly one ounce of compound. Not too bad really. That's only about $5 worth of compound per hone.
It gets considerably better with the second application. Doesn't take as much compound, and it lasts probably close to twice as long because most of the diamonds from the first coat are still there, and the leather is broken in.
It will be fun to see how long these hones remain effective. I put about 5x as much compound on each hone as Ken Schwartz puts on one of his kangaroo hones. We had a very lengthy discussion on it this morning!
Ken and I can analyze for hours. I know it sounds totally crazy to virtually everyone, but we were figuring how many pieces of grit per square inch between 16um compound and his finest compound, which is .005um. 5 nanometers! Think of that! You can almost polish DNA with it.
Over 3 m-m-m-m-million grit! Over a trillion pieces of grit in a 2oz bottle.
Kinda mind blowing, but I'm a lot more concerned about how many pieces of 45 micron diamond there are in a bottle. And 80 micron. Got a bottle of each on the way, plus another bottle of 16um.