Thread: Slurry! Yes or No ?

Chinese 12k with slurry works much faster than on water and the result is almost the same in shaving quality. But as some of the guys said, different stones produce different slurries...

On the water stones like the Norton, Naniwa Super Stone, Shapton Glass or even Naniwa Chosera which come with slurry stones, I have not found any benefit in either time or effectiveness from using or generating a slurry when honing on these including the their finishing stones. As far as Natural stones, that is another question and for me, it really depends on the stones. I get pretty good results on the Coticule and the LM and sometimes on a couple of my Japanese naturals going from light slurry to water when finishing. On my Escher and Charnley, I just use water on the Escher and oil on the Charnley. When using the one stone method on the Naturals, I can use either a DMT, generic nagura or the 3 set japanese naguras to build a heavy slurry and then dilute along the process to water eventually.

I think you really have to play around with this whole theme though and determine what works best for you which has pretty much been said by a few here already.

Have fun.

Originally Posted by gssixgun

Or you could wait until Lynn jumps in and says he doesn't hardly use slurry at all

There is no real rule, hence the term YMMV

Just to clarify. You use WD40 on the hone and asking about use of slurry? As a lot of people answerred the question in diferent situation- use of water I am wondering. How would you guys dilute the slurry to the clean- no slurry finish? bMore WD 40?

Originally Posted by adrspach

Just to clarify. You use WD40 on the hone and asking about use of slurry? As a lot of people answerred the question in diferent situation- use of water I am wondering. How would you guys dilute the slurry to the clean- no slurry finish? bMore WD 40?

how about olive oil?

Jock try it. perhaps then you will get the question.

I was under the impression that your question was a joke..

Yer As i said , I didnt think you should use Slurry on the final 12k stone, but being new I wanted to be sure I was doing the right thing. Cheers guys