Description
The wood block’s 3×8″ ‘top’ here has a 3×8″ 3M Diamond Lapping film, tan [1250 grit / 15 micron]
Wood block from Minnesota, born and bred, 593g.
Too damn thick/dense, it is/was hard work to shape, I vote this as harder labor than straight acrylic, which is tough but at least that’s 100% the same fight all the time, with natural wood that’s firm not only do you have a tough fight on your hands but it is a variable one as well.
But the top’s shaped perfectly well and the film’s got a nice lineup with one of the two 3×8″ ‘railings’, it will cut razors’ new concave bevels with tremendous alacrity. Use with water, water and alcohol, water and Ballistol, or my pref high grade thin mineral oil of some sort (I like ‘sewing machine oil‘). You can use it in the honing direction, stropping direction, or go ‘across’ the 3″ surface as I do with the file method in the recent you and tube videos section.
