Thread: How to start with naturals

All of the stones you are mentioning are wonderful finishers and their is so much info on each, you could read for days and end up with memebers who prefer one to the other claiming which one is best.

Before you venture into that world, in no way want to insult your abilities, but generally, anyone of them will be great, providing you can get a good shave off a synthetic 8k grit. If your abilities in honing are not there yet, a natural finisher might be something you will want to hold off until your skills are good enough to get something out of them that would be worth the expense.

At that point, there is no debating that eschers are consistant and they have a very strong following here at SRP.

If you venture into Jnats, you will save much time and frustration by picking a vendor that understands your honing style and abilities because of the much larger variation and individuality of the stones.

Coticules are also excellent stones and there is a number of people here that use them in different ways and love them as well.

I hope I began to at least set you in the right direction, but that is a very big question, and I can not emphasize how important it is that you know where you stand in your abilities so you can make a good choice.


edit-this forum is known to many as a "stone forum" take some time and you will not be disappointed, I don't know any other place that has accumulated as much information on natural finishers applied to razors than here. You are in the right place to get the help you will need. Good luck.
Mike