Timeline for When sharpening, how do I assess what grit to start on?
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| Sep 29, 2016 at 9:40 | comment | added | keshlam | Or by trying your best guess, and going coarser if it isn't improving fast enough. If you sharpen fairly frequently, or are working on a softer steel, you can start at a higher/finer grade. If you wait longer between sharpening, or are working on a harder steel, you may want a more aggressive starting point. (Note that there's a trade-off here: harder steel stays sharp longer but takes longer to sharpen. Some tool makers explicitly offer two or three different hardnesses so customers can pick the behavior that best fits the way they like to work.) | |
| Sep 27, 2016 at 19:36 | comment | added | Jason C | @James By running all the grits you have available over a piece of scrap metal and looking at which scratches resemble what you're trying to remove until one day you just remember and don't need to do that any more. It's really not a concrete process. Just pick one and start sharpening, change if the results aren't appropriate. Then you gain experience. Then you'll be fine. Dont over think it. | |
| Sep 27, 2016 at 15:28 | comment | added | James Youngman | The first sentence of your answer makes a lot of sense (in the context that, at stage N of the honing process, you are mainly eliminating the defects introduced at the coarser stage N-1). However, how, specifically do I choose a grit size? | |
| Sep 27, 2016 at 15:23 | history | answered | Martin Bonner supports Monica | CC BY-SA 3.0 |