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I am not sure I fully understand. To me the comparison between nagura and diamond plate is apples to oranges. When you use nagura, unless it is tomonagura you are not using the stone's particulates at all are you, or at least compared to the nagura particles the actual stone's particles are secondary? I might be reading it wrong, but if I am I then fail to see the point of using increasingly fine nagura.

When it comes to tomonagura, I would argue that hiving off even 1/20th of your Jnat for this purpose would be equivalent to God knows how many diamond plate slurry sessions (10,000? 20,000?) particularly if you use one appropriate for the job such as a 1200 Atoma or something of similar quality. Let's face it, if you use a crappy diamond plate on a $300+ Jnat you get what you deserve IMO!

Don't get me wrong, I do like the idea of the nagura honing method, but I don't think I agree that diamond plates on Jnats will be sub-standard.

James.

I do not meen that if you dont use Nagura you will not get 100 % of your hone, but i do meen that if you use diamond plate you will not.
I think 100 % come from not to use either diamond plate or Nagura hehe

But yes you are totally right Base stone is most importent player her ! And i think to smoothen it dose improve performance of your base stone, like on Arkansas stones.

Thanks for reading

The only thing I see missing from this blog is the Base:

IE: The base stone determines what is going to work and how it is going to work, until you take the time to learn how your base stone works first everything else is a moot point...

I do not agree with your assumption that unless you use nagura that you will not get 100 % from your honing, I agree that you need to try all of the options with your razors before you decide on one path..

I really think that the base stone itself along with your honing style determines what is going to give the best outcome... basically this is where the romance with a natural stone begins

Good write up here