Thread: Nakayama Update

Originally Posted by DwarvenChef

You know your killing us that want one and can't aford one just yet ARRGGHH!!!!!!

Sorry! But you know you want one...

Originally Posted by FatboySlim

The Nakayama has made me appreciate my other hones more, and the constant honing practice has improved my technique on it and my other hones. The better the edge I get before the Nakayama, the further the Nakayama can take it.

I agree completely. I've only used it on razors that have been very sharp already, I imagine my results would not have been so positive if I expected it to sharped a razor from dull to light saber sharp. I know I can still benefit from getting to know it more and how many laps are really necessary. But I know it can perform.

Originally Posted by kevint

I have never been to japan and haggled with a miner for a pile of rocks so i have no idea what they go for. Size, age, there is a lot to it. The main thing:effectiveness. which is speed, consistency (i think anyway) it's all good.

I love these things and am happy for you! happy honing

Thanks. I know there are a LOT of factors with Japanese hones (well, no more than other types of hones, I'm just very unfamiliar with Japanese ones). But I've come to the realization that I don't need to know everything about the different qualities of Nakayamas because I only really need to get to know one, mine.

I find myself looking for stuff to hone, Everything I have is shave ready, Damm the bad luck.....Maybe I could accidentally dull one...Ha....

Originally Posted by zib

I find myself looking for stuff to hone, Everything I have is shave ready, Damm the bad luck.....Maybe I could accidentally dull one...Ha....

I know what you mean. I don't have RAD, so I only have 3 razors now! (I sold the rest, I'm much more of a HAD person) Needless to say, all 3 of those razors have spent plenty of time rubbing up and down that Nakayama these past few days.....

To me they go hand in hand. You can have RAD without HAD but if you do have HAD chances are you will want to hone razors. I have two on the way and more on the watch list. It never ends.... well it will one day but not yet. I have a friend who had serious HAD but he wasn't into honing razors. He liked to lap the hones and check out the slurry and look at the structure under a microscope. He honed some razors but that wasn't his main wheel. Me I like to hone and I like razors so as long as the money holds out it is like a horse and carriage.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

To me they go hand in hand. You can have RAD without HAD but if you do have HAD chances are you will want to hone razors. I have two on the way and more on the watch list. It never ends.... well it will one day but not yet. I have a friend who had serious HAD but he wasn't into honing razors. He liked to lap the hones and check out the slurry and look at the structure under a microscope. He honed some razors but that wasn't his main wheel. Me I like to hone and I like razors so as long as the money holds out it is like a horse and carriage.

Dear Jimmy,

You need a nakayama.

Sell a couple razors in the classifieds and buy one already!!

That is all.