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.