Thread: finishing with japanese naturals - what's your way?

There are others far more educated than I am about Japanese naturals, but I sometimes use slurry and sometimes I don't. From what I understand, there are are nagura stones that are better suited for finishing slurry and others that are better for working through a "progression" where you can use it similarly to a coticule effectively.

Any time I want to use slurry, I use a diamond plate to raise the slurry from the stone (not trusting my unknown quality of my nagura). The weird thing is that both methodologies has gotten very positive feedback... Maybe slurry is completely unnecessary for a finisher? I don't know for sure... I spend entirely too much time with a coticule