Thread: Nagura Honing - Video tutorial

Originally Posted by mainaman

The final step of the honing process is optional, but I choose to use Tomonagura, a piece of polishing stone that creates very fine slurry for final polishing of the edge.
The Tomonagura routine is again same as with Nagura.
At the end I like to finish with water only.
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My personal tomonagura is in the 20-30k, it is a soft Nakayama Tojiro that I got from So.

Tomonagura can be any piece of fine finishing stone as long as it is softer than the base stone, one can also use tmonagura cut from the base stone itself.

Well done and Bravo, Stefan.

Question: I gather from your description that you're not using slurry from the honzan in the final (pre-water) step, but rather you're creating the last slurry from a (tomo)nagura that may or may not be related to the honzan - in this case, not. Is there a reason that you didn't raise this last slurry directly from the honzan? In other words, why use a tomonagura softer than the base stone in the last slurry step?

Again - great job!

EDIT - Another thought: Any thoughts on why you chose to not use the koma? Thx.