Quote Originally Posted by holli4pirating View Post
"Good" and "Good finisher" are two different things. A Norton 1k is a very good hone. If you bought the hone and it was sold to you as a good finisher, that's a different story.

You may well be getting the most you can from the hone, or maybe she does have more to give. I have a Nakayama that sounds similar (coticule-esque, is how I describe it), and I just don't think it will give a finish like my Asagi. But I guess one can never really know, unless you send your particular hone to a jnat guru to hone on.
So did you go through something similar? Did you notice the diffrence right away after you got your asagi or did you have it first. If it does have more to give, it would be very difficult for me. Very light almost lifting strokes still do not give me the smoothness I really want. It sounds like members with similar skills to me that have the 30k and then the Jnat never went back and produce a smoother edge off the Jnat.
I mean, I would not want to give up the Jnat because it is so gentle yet so wicked fast, but it just does not get me to the end point I want, and I do it with ease on the 30k every time.