Suehiro (or other synthetic) slurry stones?

[gabrielcr78]

Hello All,

Sometimes when removing a nick or honing a wedge, or setting a bevel on a very hard steel razor, i find my self needing to add some slurry to my Chosera 1k, or even my 600. I don't bring the 400 or 600 stones to the table unless its a real challenge, but even on those sometimes you need some slurry...

Sometimes I just use my Atoma 120 to create some slurry on the Chosera 1k,or sometimes i use the cleaning 600 stone that comes with the Choseras 600 or 400... i know! this is a cleaning block (a very very thirsty one BTW), but it gives me just a bit more of power.

I think it would be useful to have slurry stone (of the same or slightly higher grit that the corresponding stone) for all mychoseras up to 3-4k, when i move to 8k and up I don't think I want/need slurry anymore (my humble opinion)...

the down side is that it's impossible to find choseras slurry stones (and it would be really expensive it there were any). So, recently i've been thinking on purchasing some of those suehiro slurry stones from ebay sold by some guys in Japan,
I know i could just buy some natural Naguras from a respectable source) and use them even on my synth stones, but i would rather nt to mix naturals with synths cause then you get into uncertainty...

so, even when they are different brands (my only shuehiro is my SG20k), at least the are both JIS grit measure (should be at least close) and they have grit size assigned.

the plan is to use always a higher grit suehiro slurry on each chosera or naniwa stone, which would hopefully not mess with the progression but also help to develop slurry from the chosera stone itself... lets say:

5k suehiro slurry for 3k-2k chosera,
3k suehiro slurry for 1k -800 chosera,
1k suehiro slurry for 600 or lower choseras

so... my questions are:

1. has anyone has tried those shuehiro and this method before?
2. does anyone know where to find/buy chosera slurry stones (no, i will not cut mine, and yes, the ones in chefknivestogo are too expensive)
3. any of you has a good reason to tell me i'm a fool for thinking this could work?


thanks!!

Gabe