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Product, maker micron

ZenSharp diamond cards

Diamond-card sharpening system, micron-rated

This is Zen-Wu's own product, listed here on the same terms as every other. The ZenSharp cards are diamond, labelled coarse to ultra-fine with a micron marked on each card (45, 20, 9, 3). That is a maker figure, so we tier it maker-published, not measured, and we publish no distribution yet, so each card is a single point. Building the table does not earn our own product a better tier.

Each grade below shows its size in microns, its spread (the published distribution, where a maker or standard gives one; most makers publish none), and where that size lands on the reference scale, a shared yardstick for reading grit numbers across makers.

Particle sizemicrons, log
5030201053
coarserfiner
inkmeasured or standardmaker figureour estimate
shapeknown distributionpoint, spread unknown
Coarse (45 µm)Maker-published
ZenSharp
45 µm

The coarse card.

spread not published · reference scale about #290

Medium (20 µm)Maker-published
ZenSharp
20 µm

The everyday card.

spread not published · reference scale about #600

Fine (9 µm)Maker-published
ZenSharp
9 µm

Enough to finish an edge for most woodworking.

spread not published · reference scale about #1300

Ultra-fine (3 µm)Maker-published
ZenSharp
3 µm

For sushi knives and the finest finish.

spread not published · reference scale about #4000