BlacknTan
Well-Known Member
For me at least..
If the coticule layers are all roughly the same at 30-40% garnet, why do stones perform as individuals, and why do different layers perform differently, and it seems, somewhat predictably?
Is it the binder that contains the garnets, and the garnets different sizes and shapes?
And further, is it advisable, or desirable to have a slurry stone from the same layer as the hone? If a different layer slurry stone were used, I assume the softer stone, whether the hone or slurry stone would give up it's garnets first?? So the slurry could possibly be more akin to the slurry stone than the hone itself?
Would the stone then perform more akin to a softer slurry stone than the hone itself, assuming the hone is from a different, and perhaps harder layer?
Am I making sense? And does this whole idea have any merit? Or am I just chasing ghosts?
If the coticule layers are all roughly the same at 30-40% garnet, why do stones perform as individuals, and why do different layers perform differently, and it seems, somewhat predictably?
Is it the binder that contains the garnets, and the garnets different sizes and shapes?
And further, is it advisable, or desirable to have a slurry stone from the same layer as the hone? If a different layer slurry stone were used, I assume the softer stone, whether the hone or slurry stone would give up it's garnets first?? So the slurry could possibly be more akin to the slurry stone than the hone itself?
Would the stone then perform more akin to a softer slurry stone than the hone itself, assuming the hone is from a different, and perhaps harder layer?
Am I making sense? And does this whole idea have any merit? Or am I just chasing ghosts?