Thread: Jnat Finisher honing with Water Only

Interesting post.

I have done water-only finishes with fine results on a couple of my finishers.
A Nakayama Kiita and a Shoubudani Asagi I have seem to do best using water only.
Both are hard, but not the 5+++ varieties.
They will however perform equally well with a dilution of slurry, and finished off before completely clean. i.e. water only.

I have one Ozuku that will start to skip and vibrate on water only when the razor is at the final stages, and then it really doesn't do any more good for the edge.
When I add a drop of dishwashing detergent to the water, the skipping seems to stop, but it will not reach true finisher stages without a slight haze of slurry

On another Nakayama I have, an Asagi, I will have to finish with a tad more slurry for some reason.
It does perform just as well as all the others, but this is the way to get the max from that one I find.

As with my Y/G Escher and other naturals I use, I will usually finish the razor with a very small amount of slurry as the final stage.
The exception of course being oilstones like my Charnley Forest. (for those who uses it with that)