Thread: I declare this: Ozuku madness!

Sorry for these questions. Slurry confuses me, particularly using nagura.

James.

J nats dont have really grits but thin flakes that brake in to thiner flakes, if you make thin light slurry it will not affect (grits) so much on the other hand if diamond partikel get loos that will damage you finish big time.
It is way of topic now i think you shod start new tread about it

Originally Posted by maxim207

J nats dont have really grits but thin flakes that brake in to thiner flakes, if you make thin light slurry it will not affect (grits) so much on the other hand if diamond partikel get loos that will damage you finish big time.
It is way of topic now i think you shod start new tread about it

OK sure. Thanks for the patience and answers.

James.

I've tried using DMT plates to make slurry on my Japanese Stones and if the stone is very hard you get a lot of particles in the slurry from the DMT. It ruins your edges like Maksim said earlier, I now just use a hard nagura for slurry. I would think if you're not using too much slurry your arm hair should fall away easily and silently.

With regards to slurry and Japanese stones, I've found using even the slightest amount of slurry to make a huge difference. I only have experience on a couple of stones, so I am by far an authority on the matter, but compared to how slow they were on water and how well they worked and polished with even a hint of slurry, the difference was fantastic. A little really does go a long way.

Originally Posted by Disburden

I've tried using DMT plates to make slurry on my Japanese Stones and if the stone is very hard you get a lot of particles in the slurry from the DMT. It ruins your edges like Maksim said earlier, I now just use a hard nagura for slurry. I would think if you're not using too much slurry your arm hair should fall away easily and silently.

Sounds like people with the harder, finer Jnats need to consider a different diamond plate than the DMT if they want to make slurry using one. In any event, the issue for me with the Nakayama Asagi is not that it does not kill arm hairs, it is that after a good stropping it *really* kills arm hairs. Straight off the stone it is nothing like what it becomes after a stropping, which is in my experience quite different to what happens off my shapton 16K, Escher, cotis etc. It is a curious thing, this stone/strop edge differential on my Jnats.

Anyway, sorry, I know the OP has called off-topic on this. So lets get back to looking at pictures of Ozukus. If I can get my camera working I will post a pic of mine soon.

James.

Jimbo this happen to me also all the time, this happen to a friend too.
Don't know why nor cannot find a logical explanation to it, but before stropping it does not cut hairs, after stropping the razor become a killer
this both happen if i use an both atoma or a stone to lap and create little slurry.

Regards
Luca

My king Ozuku

Ozuku Karasu
Probably the best stone i ever gona get for razors, feels very very smooth and super hard Lv 5+++ for sure haha...
Edge of this stone is the best edge i can ever get, i feel really like my strop downgrades this stone.







And my Nakayama Maruka Asagi Lv 5+
I use this one for my Kamisoris with my Wakasa

Maksim, you have my address, you know where to send that Ozuku!

Originally Posted by Blix

Thanks. Oh well, another fun lapping session to look forward to then. A good movie and a couple beers makes it easier

I'd get AT LEAST a couple o 6-packs....