Rock hard felt wheel

[Ken S]

That's correct. As Vadim demonstrates using his Tormek with the SG-250, leather honing wheel and PA-70, I can overlook a little commercialism with the FVB.

Ken

[austijp]

I have been trying the rock hard wheel and my experience has been mediocre. I now use 2 leather wheels, I finish with a .1 paste and my results are getting much better, at 15deg I can frequently get below 100 BESS.  I set my honing angle about 1 to 1.5 deg higher than my grind angle.

[Ken S]

Well done!

Ken

[Sir Amwell]

Thanks again everyone. Lots to think about.
It seems that the jury is out on the felt wheel then.
Perhaps it is best left for harder steel or quality knives ( as Vadim termed them).
The interesting thing with that is that many of Vadims protocols for these types of steel forgo the felt wheel and rely on exact or sometimes a very slight reduction in angle. These steels fall into the negative burr category I think?