Originally Posted by
Steve56
Ha ha, I agree Alex. I’ve always suspected that the purpose of the diamond paste ‘deburring’ is really just to bump the edge with paste like coti people do, because many cotis aren’t fine enough for many people. Diamond pastes will erase a JNat edge in very few strokes.
They got a stone from Hatanaka most likely, and assumed that they were sufficient. I have 4 Hatanakas including some quite pricey ones, and none of them are really very good razor finishers.
You know as well as I do, that to get the best JNat or coticule, you’re going to have to buy a number of them and test/high grade them. You can’t go to any dealer whether it’s Alex, Max, Hatanaka, or Takeshi and reliably just buy one stone that’s in the top 1%. You just can’t, nature doesn’t work that way.