Thanks for sharing . They’re good stones for me so far . I think I like the ease of diamonds with no soapy water but the finish of the Venev @50-60 microns seems good . Also the 80-100 microns seems to hone very well and the 80 feels like a 150 to me but the way they remove the steel is smoother than the gritty diamonds . I don’t even use pressure with Diamonds , just the weight of the bar mostly .
Ursa is for recurved blades. You need the Venev centaur stones those are the 1×6. I have the centaur series now im getting ready to get the Ursa set. Good unboxing. Would have been nice to know what types of leather the strops are. I use the Hapstone RS and Venev Centaur stones for a strop i have a 2×8 paddle with tooling leather on it and 1 micron stroppy stuff. Cant wait to get my Ursa stones so I can do recurves.
If the Recurve is deep, they have an actual convex shaped stone the same width as narrow stoned here but no sharp corner to put a nick in the edge. Nice for putting a mirrored edge on a fully sharpened swedge on a Bowie as well. ;
There is a Hapstone holder for the KME that allows use of many stones. It also with KME adjustment for thickness, allows use of quarter inch balsa strops. These are the same stones I just got, should work on recurves. They are thin though. I like sharpening videos
Do you still have them and did you purchase 1"? I'm buying the same stones and I don't know if I should buy 2 stone centaur ( F240/400 F800/1200) or for same price 3 stones URSA type (F80/150 F240/400 F800/1200)?
Narrow stones are usefull for recurve blades. Also if you sharpen a lot of skinners there will not be much difference between narrow and regular size stones. They are good to have
