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About Equivalencies

When I first started out woodworking and sharpening I leaned that 220 Grit and 220P Grit are not the same size.. Plus when I when to buy some diamond paste I was total confused about what I was buying.. That when I decided to learn all I could about the different rating system used in measuring abrasive grits..

I hope this page will help you decider all the standards used and save you some searching..

 

Abrasives Grit Sizes Equivalencies

Description

 Diamond Mesh
Belts and Wheels
Water Stones
Average grit size in microns

 
CAMI (USA)
FEPA (Europe)
JIS
(Japan)

 
12


1842

 
P12
1764

*American National Standards Institute B74.12.

 
12*


1600

 
16
P16

1322

 
16*


1092

 
P20

984

 
20*


940

 
20


905

 
24*


686

 
P24

740

 
24


715

 
30


638

 
P30

622

 
30*


559

 
36


535

 
P36

524

 
40


428

 
P40

412

 
50


351

 
P50

326

 
60


268

 
P60

260

 
P80

195

 
80


192

Coarse Crystolon

 
P100

156
   
100

150
141

 
P120

127

160
120


116

100 micron belt

  


100

 
P150

97

Medium Crystolon, coarse India

225
150


93

80 Micron belt

  


80

 
180
P180

78

3M 74 micron diamond stone

 240


74

Fine Crystolon

  
P220

65

60 Micron belt, extra coarse diamond hone

  
220


60

285
P240
240
58

 
240


53.5

Medium India 

 
F230
53

 
P280

52.5

 

280
50

 
P320
46

Coarse Diamond

 325
325
F240
45
   
280

320
43

 
P360

40.5

3M 40 micron diamond stone & belt

  
"400"


40

 
F280
36.5

Medium diamond

 
320

360
36

35 Micron belt

 500
P400

35

Fine India

 

400
 32

30 Micron belt

 600
P500

30

Washita

 
360
F320
29

 
400
P600

25.8
  800
 


25

Fine Diamond

     F360
23

22 Micron belt

  

600
22

 
P800

21.8

20 Micron belt

  


20

3M 20 micron stone

  
"800"


20

Soft Arkansas

  
500


19.5

18 Micron belt

  
P1000

18.3

1,050
F400
17
   
600

800
16

 
P1200

15.3

15 Micron belt, 15 micron SiC paper

 1,200


15

Extra fine Diamond, and Medium Ceramic

  
700

1000
14

 
P1500
12.6

12 micron belt

  
800


12
Hard white Arkansas
  

900
1200
 11

Queer Creek Blue Ohio Sandstone

  
600 - 1000


9-16

1,400
P2000
10.3

3M 10 micron diamond stone

  
"1800"


10

 
1000
F600
1500
9.2

Extra-fine diamond hone

  
"1200"


9

Hard black Arkansas, 9 micron belt

 
1000


9

1,800
P2500
8.4

2,800

2000
 7.5

4,500
1200
F800
6.5

6 Micron belt

 5,000


6

5 micron SiC paper

 8,000
F1000
5

Extra fine white Ceramic, green chrome rouge, 3 Micron belt, Tormek compound*

 9,000
1500
F1200
4000
3

13,000
F1500
 6000
 2

Japanese Waterstone

 14,000
F2000
8000
1.2

1 Micron belt, Linde C compound

  
2000


1

Chromium oxide polishing compound,
0.5 micron Chromium oxide paper

 60,000


0.5

There is another chart of fine abrasive equivalents at Diamond_Equivaency

 100,000


0.25

Crystolon is Norton Abrasives tm for Silicon Carbide stones

India is Norton Abrasives tm for Aluminum Oxide stones

Raybrite and Linde compounds are aluminum oxide powders

 

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