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    After thinking that I overcame my HAD, and sold my best stones, I ended up reading about Jnats on the Jnat club thread. And that darned HAD kicked back!
    So, I searched for them, stones, sellers, types, articles, and learned from members here (Alex, JimR, Maksim, amongst others), that, western stones like nakayama, ozuku, shobu, were good, and, the wakasa and maybe maruoyama that are not from somewhere near Tōkyō, are good for razors, and basically, any stone from a mine that's in it's final years, where stones are extracted from as deep as possible are good from razors.
    The slurry stones are very useful, and, experience on how to use them is even more useful.
    And, I ended buying one shobu, and one ozuku, big sized, pure stones. I chose a very hard ozuku kiita over a very hard nakayama asagi, although both looked good, I hope I chose right.
    I've been wondering if Jnats can give better shaves than European stones. I'll have time to test them and see for myself.

    Anyway, the smooth vs sharp, everyone has his own preferences. CrOx vs Diamond. There is no definite answer.
    Anyone interested, I can give you updates on the stones.
    Last edited by Vasilis; 01-31-2014 at 09:27 AM.

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