Eze-lap

[johnnytheboy]

I was going to buy a sharpening stone I was reading on frost website diamond stones are about the quickest way of sharpening, so i was looking at the eze-lap website, they do double sided stones, there grits are

Superfine (1200)
Fine (600)
Medium(400)
Coarse(250)

They do just about every combination of these 4 grits, can anyone recomend which combination would be best for sharpening of bushcrafty type knifes.

 

[Joonsy]

i have an eze-lap 600 grit and also a fallkniven DC3, both are 600 grit but the eze-lap does feel more coarser to me, both sharpen well and the eze-lap seems to sharpen quicker but the DC3 seems more smoother, also discounting the ceramic of the DC3 the diamond part is thicker on the eze-lap and is heavier.

 

[Traper]

I would buy 400 and 1200 or 600 and 1200. You can sharpen a very dull blade with 400 or 600 and then finish it with 1200 and strop.

I use DC4 and I think it gives beautiful edge. You may want to consider DC4

 

[Chainsaw]

I've a DC 4 and along with a strop I can't think of anything else I'd need for knives. Axes may need something a bit beefier...

Cheers,

Alan

 

[johnnytheboy]

dc4 is pretty good price, anyone any idea what grit it is roughly??

 

[weaver]

DMT make a higher quality surface on their stones. They use mono crystalline diamond grit which seems to last longer and cut smoother. They cost more but I have worn out two of the eze-lap pocket stones and used a single DMT over twice as long as both of them. I threw away the old eze-laps and still have the DMT.

 

[Traper]

dc4 is pretty good price, anyone any idea what grit it is roughly??

This is Fallkniven info:

"The diamond grit is 600 mesh which is a diamond size of 25 micron. For the ceramic stone, I have no grit information but the stone is extremely flat and hard and, using the ceramic stone is for polishing the edge only"

 

[johnnytheboy]

ahh is it double sided stone? i was reading about it on the net but never picked that up, diamond on one side ceramic on the other?

 

[Traper]

Yes- it's double sided.

DC4 stands for Diamond-Ceramic 4 inch.

 

[Joonsy]

ahh is it double sided stone? i was reading about it on the net but never picked that up, diamond on one side ceramic on the other?

a diamond sharpener glued to a ceraminc stone, easily seperated if you want them too.