Thread: Spill the beans, Jimmy!

Originally Posted by alx

Using a diamond plate (diamond nagura-DN or hon-nagura-HN) to raise a slurry is the fool proof method. A nagura stone is the more traditional approach in Japan although that is changing slowly. Using a DN will wear off grit faster and in my opinion this is the only drawback. Alx

For traditional finishing, it would be a tomonagura--a piece of the same stone used as a slurry stone. True nagura are much coarser than the actual stone & are used for preparing the edge for the final tomonagura slurry, which can be raised w/ a diamond plate if you don't have a matching slurry stone. For finishing, you use slurry from the main stone or water or some combination of both, depending on the stone. FWIW, I use a little folding DMT-C minisharp on mine--same size as a slurry stone even.

Originally Posted by onimaru55

I guess that's possible but how many strokes were you doing to slurry up ? I only ever use about 5-10 light strokes to create an almost invisible slurry with my Atoma 1200 for finishing.

About 10-20 back and forth strokes with a credit card size dmt 325 grit.

Originally Posted by Disburden

About 10-20 back and forth strokes with a credit card size dmt 325 grit.

Well, diamonds don't wear but they do fracture. If the stone is that hard it could well break em off the plate. Spyderco UF's are like that. Break in a DMT in seconds