Thread: I declare this: Ozuku madness!

I've been playing around with slurry a little lately on my Oozuku suita and Nakayama asagi stones. particularly on the suita it seems to give the stone better feedback and appears to make it cut a bit faster, but on that stone I have to be careful to not make too much slurry. The asagi seems to not care one way or the other whether there is slurry or not, although I have noticed that if I use slurry on that one the feedback feels nicer.

But the one thing I have noticed on both stones is that the finished edge straight off the stone will not plink arm hairs. However, give the razor a strop and all of a sudden the arm hairs are a-poppin'! Anyone else experience this? And what do you guys think it means?

James.

Originally Posted by gary haywood

then just strop it on the hone with water, so basicly back honing? or do you mea finish with 20 normal x strokes?

Just finish with 20 very light x strokes
Be sure that your stone is super clean when you do with water only !!!

Originally Posted by Jimbo

But the one thing I have noticed on both stones is that the finished edge straight off the stone will not plink arm hairs. However, give the razor a strop and all of a sudden the arm hairs are a-poppin'! Anyone else experience this? And what do you guys think it means?

James.

It seems like you overdue with slurry, mine pups arm hairs from it direct, i can even shave from the stone without a problem.

It happens, particularly off the asagi, even without using slurry. After stropping the edge is really nice, and fairly robust (as in it lasts a long time). I suppose grit is being raised from the surface of the stone even when I do not deliberately make a slurry, but it cannot be that much can it?

James.

It depends how hard your stone is. There are some Asagis that make slurry on its on. I had same experience with some of the stones but it was because i used to much slurry or because my bevel was not set right. When i use to much slurry my edge is very harsh too.

Hmmm, OK. The only way I can get slurry off the asagi is with the diamond plate, so I'm thinking it is a hard-ish stone. So Yamashita, the guy I bought it off, also said it was a hard stone. So that leaves the bevels. I shall take a close look at my bevels. Thanks maxim!

James.

BTW Do not use your DMT please

Use your suita to make slurry !!

I bought a 1200K Atoma diamond plate to make slurry with.

James.

Just use your other natural to make slurry, believe me you will see the difference

OK, I will give it a try. But how do you then know which grit you are using? What I mean is won't the stone get contaminated with the other stone's grit? The asagi feels a lot harder than the suita, and from what I can tell the asagi is a higher grit than the suita. If I make slurry on the asagi with the suita, it will be mainly suita slurry won't it?

James.