Being hands-on, a stubborn control freak, and very curious, I could only muster so much interest in straight shaving without being able to hone my own razors. I got my first straight 8 years ago but only recently figured out the honing part, so mostly it's been DE. For years I had a little clip of Lynn talking about Naniwa hones playing in my head, so when it came time to get a hone that's immediately where I went (20k fyi). When I got my hone, though, I struggled with it loading up - it got grey streaks of metal and wouldn't sharpen satisfactorily. I tried to remove the loaded-up surface with a DMT diamond plate and discovered that the slurry on the stone kept it from loading up, and I can now get great shaves (also using CrOx pasted strop). However, I don't want to grind away some stone every time I hit the hone, so my question is, are there abrasive sprays that are-water based that I can spray on my hone to accomplish the same thing? Alternately, if my Naniwa is loading up, is there something else I'm missing? Does anyone else kick up slurry on Naniwa or other artificial water stones?