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03-17-2010, 11:58 AM #1
I use a light slurry worked up with another piece of J-nat hone to finish, or use a little diamond plate, depending on the stone.
Or I use a spyderco UF as an baseplate with J-nat slurry on it, that way the slurry has ample time to break down, without bringing out larger, fresh cutting media. That has given me the finest results to date.
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03-17-2010, 01:27 PM #2
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Thanked: 346Nothing special. On my Maruka Nakayama Asagi, I spritz on a little water and hone until it's done, which the razor will tell you if you listen to it. I let the slurry dry and reuse it next time.
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03-18-2010, 04:17 PM #3
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Thanked: 4942I would tend to agree here. On my Asagi, I simply spray a little water as well and will do 10-15 X strokes or just a few circles followed by 10 X strokes and the razor is usually there. On this stone, for me, the application can be repeated without over-honing. I also do not clean the naturally formed slurry off the stone and let it dry. I have never found any benefit to creating a slurry and for me, any heavier slurry has made my results more unpredictable and in almost all cases not as nice.
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03-17-2010, 11:14 PM #4
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03-18-2010, 11:13 AM #5
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03-18-2010, 12:44 PM #6
Hmm - but isnt the spyderco much less fine than the j-nat slurry?
mparker - interesting. I have often thought that I might be able to get to the point where I could hear or feel when a given stage is finished, but I'm not there yet. Only been honing a few months, though.
holli - I find your slurry-theory hilarious, adorable, and quite possibly correct. though I never thought about it that way. since if it is a watery slurry, "running" into it won't do much damage, and if its a very dry, paste-y slurry, then the edge goes over it. but an interestign notion. also, so you dont use any sort of fabric, ever? (by linen I just meant fabric generally.)
thanks, seth.
EDIT: also: what is this everyone keeps talking about the way the bevel looks? i've never cared too much how it looks. i guess the idea is that we need *some* way of telling what's going on down there at this microscopic level besides shaving. but how much can your really tell by the scratch marks? how much correlation is there between that and the "effect"? I suppose I can imagine that uniformity of a given scratch-mark might tell you when that particular stage is done (like sanding), though, even that might not necessarily correlate, if the very edge got polished/smoothed well before the whole face of the bevel.Last edited by Mijbil; 03-18-2010 at 01:51 PM.
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03-18-2010, 03:54 PM #7
I'm not sure what part you might find hilarious. Bart says that a coticule slurry thicker than milk will impede the sharpening of the razor, even with slurry sharpening. It is also common to every slurry method I have ever seen written about to dilute the slurry as you progress and to finish with just water. The way I visualize the slurry interacting with the edge is my attempt to explain the methods/results everyone seems to have/get.