Thread: JNAT & Nagura questions/identification - help!

Originally Posted by Brighty83

A synthetic nagura on a natural stone? Doesn't make much sense to me. The Jnats break down in to extremely fine particles while honing, synthetic stones don't do this as well.

Genuine nagura's aren't expensive but if you don't want to buy one you can use the DMT to make a slurry. A medium and fine nagura would be the better option though.

Synthetic nagura on a natural stone is very bad idea.
So you should avoid it.

DMT diamond plate istead of natural nagura is a kind of palliative. It works well in some cases, for example for Suita toisi.
But it ain't work well for hard razor stones like Nakayama Asagi.

So it is very right point to get at least two nagura stones. Say one BOTAN ( ボタン ) and one Meijiro ( 目白 ).
Once you have meijiro you don't need to get 天上 ( Tenjou ) because both of them are very close in their grit.
Koma Nagura コマ （ 細名倉 ） is the finest kind of Nagura. It is very good thing to add to your Nagura set, but it is expensive.