Split from all the Coticule threads:::

[JimR]

The impractical part I am/was trying to point out apart from the slowness and stuff is, you are wasting away limited natural resources by grinding your natural hones into slurries. And after so many slurries you will need to lap the hone to make it flat again.

Each to his own, but I'd rather waste away a 100$ hone which I know can always be replaced, than doing it with a several 100$ natural hone, be it a coticule, Escher or Japanese natural.

How is using a Nagura on a Japanese natural different from using a slurry stone with a coticule?