Jacob
Pint of bass, porkpie, and packet of crisps please
Thanks for that Gerard.Gerard Scanlan":25obutmi said:Thanks to you all for your input and advice. Especially Jacob who has a brilliant no nonesense way of getting to the root of the matter even if it is not appreciated by everyone.
I'm all for the "keep it simple" approach. You can always make things more complicated later, but this should be deferred until absolutely necessary! In the past most woodworkers never bothered much beyond the double sided stone, or separate stones with only a small range of grit sizes, never ever approaching the fine grits talked about by modern sharpening enthusiasts.
Incidentally double sided stones are found naturally in some regions, where different strata meet with conveniently different grit sizes and sometimes different colours as well.