Thread: Natural finisher from Montenegro

Originally Posted by Srdjan

Davor I think you and I need to figure out a way to meet. Perhaps I'll come to Zagreb at some point.. the daytime job takes me around quite a bit. I cannot relate to your experience, because I don't have ANY synthetic hones beyound 1K [emoji1]

So my experiments with this stone are based purely on natural naguras and so far I've used tomo (the same kind), botan, tsushima, yellow lake and thuringian slurry stones. As you say, the stone is very hard, so it allows me to use almost all naguras available.. the stone (base) will almost always be harder.

I need to get myself some synthetics it seems.. at least I'll get that 8K synthetic nagura (the King one I think) very soon, so that should help some I guess.

If you visit Zagreb please don't hesitate to call me.

To "revitalize" this post, my good friend Srdjan shipped me two of these stones a few weeks back, and it took a while for them to arrive.
I tested the stone yesterday with a razor with a slurry stone progression and today with a medium quality knife, to test its speed.
The stone could very well pass for a Jnat if the color was darker with an iron containing minerals "skin". It's very very hard, and the stone asks you to use a slurry stone progression. It also feels good, nice feeling while honing. I also got a slurry stone, but with the hardness of this type of stone, it's difficult to raise slurry with it.
It's also quite a slow stone, one of the slowest and gentlest I have seen on steel. You can use it as the perfect base stone and any slurry stone/nagura will work, with the edge getting the characteristics of the slurry stone entirely. Raising slurry even with the atoma 400 takes some time, and the slurry of the stone itself does not contain a lot of cutting particles. Today I used a medium quality knife, <55RC hardness, and honed it with the slurry of the stone. It took a lot of time for the slurry to change color.
All in all, I like this stone very much, very versatile, and you can use it for progression with slurry stones after bevel setting with great results. I have yet to shave with its edge, but the stone is great.
Here are a few photos I took when I received it and start honing