Thread: Slurries

Originally Posted by Tarkus

Most people who own a Chosera thru that brown brick out myself included.

True, I've never used mine. I clean my Chosera with a DMT.

I use that brick all the time when Im bevel setting.
I use a thick brown slurry to help cut even faster, then as the bevel progresses I dilute down to just water
and bring the edge as far as I can until it's popping hair off of my arm. Then move on.

I never use that brown brick above my 1k chorsera.

Read here

http://straightrazorpalace.com/advan...iwa-users.html

http://straightrazorpalace.com/advan...rt-slurry.html

That is just a bit of info on slurries, what you have to understand is that they are not really needed, but then again they are a Kick in the butt to mess with.. I do believe that you can after leaning how to use them, get some extra smoothness out of the razors but that is JMHO..

Personally I use Nagura and "Slurry" stones very little, I love my well worn DMT 325 for raising a slurry, it doesn't add errant grit to the mix..
You need to experiment with your hones and style and see where it leads, there is magic in the mud, even in Synthetic mud

Personally I do use the slurry raised when I clean off the stones with the dmt. At my 8k naniwa ss and 8k jyunpaku I use a piece of standard grade coticule bout I got from Lynn and use that slurry. That has given me the most comfotrable edges thus far. Could be in my head, but my face sure has been appreciative, and since its easily repeatable I have stuck with it. Another member sent me one to hone, and he agreed as well, compared to one I did without using that process. I say play with it and judge for yourself.

Slurry is also very useful for synthetic stones. I prefer synthetic King slurry stone (Matsunaga nagura stone) up to 6k stones. I'm using small DMT (1200) for finer stones. Naniwa slurry stone is too coarse for me. Especially on Naniwa SS stones I work with slurry every time and dilute into plain water. It speed up polishing effect. Maybe someone designed these stones to use with slurry. :-)

So experiment with slurry. Sometimes it will be bad, sometimes very good. It's depend on type of stone.

I slurry everything. Natural, syth. I slurry everything. I normally use a DMT or Atoma to raise slurry, but have used that funny little brick - mostly to remove what feels like a glazed surface on the Chos. 1k

Ive been playing with them using the DMT and diluting as I move along to another set on the stone. I think I am noticing a difference in smoothness. I need to get more razors to hone the ones I got are going to be honed to death lol. How many times roughly can you hone a blade in decent shape before it starts to deteriorate?