I've done 6 razors full progression and a couple just finishing and the results from it is amazing.
I was just browsing Maksim's page, looking at a Ozuku Asagi and a Shoubudani:p
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Ozuku Mizo Asagi.
"Main Finishing Hone", made by the Main Finishing Hone Company, based in Maine in a little town called Finishing Hone.
James.
Yes, alright. My main finishing hone is a Nakayama Asagi thingy.
James.
Congrats to those of you finishing on an 8k. For a couple of years, when I first started honing razors, I ended on an 8k Norton. Getting a good shave off an 8k w/ or w/o a CrOx or other past says that you know how to hone a razor. I've always told people that anything over an 8k is useless unless you can get a good shave off the 8k's and it is still true. It's very tempting to move up to a finer grit before the previous hone has given it's all and over 8k (still true for the courser grits but at a lesser level). At this fine level the value earned for the effort is a shiny bevel and little effect on the edge proper.
My most used B/G Thuri(thankyou JimmyHAD) but I am now experimenting with a PHIG and a Welsh claimed 15K? My first finisher was a King 6k which I found paled by comparison to a Norton 8K I used for sometime. Then Thuri entered my life and now I can't stop buying stones.:cry:
Depends on the razor. I use a vintage Coticule, a newly mined Coticule, Spyderco UF, .1 um lapping film or a Black Translucent Arkansas. There are times I'll also use pastes, .5 diamond, crox or .25 diamond.
Main finishing stone? Not really a "main" one, but I've gotten some very comfy edges coming off my BBW, doing a bunch of laps on water then a bunch with baby oil. Wipe on some TP, strop on my big daddy for 60 laps or so, and done. Works better for me than finishing with my coti, whether with water or oil at this point, but I'm always experimenting, maybe they will switch in the future as I learn the other better. In the end, it's all fun.