It pays to double check!

**bueller** · 28th January 2017, 05:50 PM

Been using my Shapton stones for the last couple of months and have been very happy with them so far. Pulled them out this afternoon to sharpen a butchers knife and layed them out in the order that I needed them. While doing this I looked at the stones and realised I'd actually been using them in the wrong order! So I was going 5000 > 1000 > 12000 instead of the way normal people do things [emoji23]

I'm sure I was using them in the right order when I first got them but over the last couple of months my brain must have switched them around. It does explain why I thought the last round of sharpening I did was a bit rubbish, I thought I'd just rushed things but clearly that wasn't the problem haha

Very happy with them otherwise, thinking of adding a 320 grit to the lineup.

**Kuffy** · 28th January 2017, 05:58 PM

jumping from a 1k stone up to a high grit works if you raise the bevel angle a tiny bit for the high grit. don't go crazy on the last grit because next time it will take a while to form a burr using the common angle on the lower grit stones.

**Christos** · 31st January 2017, 09:10 PM

Originally Posted by bueller

..... I looked at the stones and realised I'd actually been using them in the wrong order! So I was going 5000 > 1000 > 12000 instead of the way normal people do things .......

I know it's not a good thing but I did have a little bit of a chuckle on this one.

Personally I would add the 320 grit.

**bueller** · 31st January 2017, 09:14 PM

Haha yeah I can see the funny side of things now! Actually kind of spurred me on to go back and resharpen a bunch of my tools so it was a good thing in the end.

**ian** · 1st February 2017, 06:14 AM

maybe write the grit number on the boxes -- that or get a colour chart

orange = 1000
pink = 5000
not sure what colour the 12000 is though

it's the 2000 and 8000 that throw me -- different shades of green

**woodPixel** · 1st February 2017, 09:18 AM

I write the numbers on the back of the stones with a sharpie.

**DiRob** · 2nd February 2017, 07:14 AM

While on the subject of sharpening can anyone suggest the best grit for credit card size diamond device to sharpen router cutters?

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