Thread: Jnats

Originally Posted by bill3152

Hello, Ive been fooling around with my Jnats a bit. My most recent discovery(im sure I didn't discover it) is honing on chosera 1, 5k. Then hitting my nakayama asagi using only a very light tomo slurry 2x finishing on water only for 20 laps. less than 5 minutes. Very fast and a great edge. I used to go through all the naguras. I started eliminating some and this is what I have come up with. I get the same result from my shuobodani as well as my ozuku asagi. Fast sharp and smooth. Why did I get all those naguras and koma? Anybody?

I been doing one nagura honing on Jnat for a long time, it works just fine. A lot of people out there are led to believe that one has to use 4 nagura to be able to hone a razor, that is not the case. There are a lot of purists out there that advocate the use of all naguras, and claim that the edge then is the best, which certainly is not the case when you know what you are doing. Nothing wrong with 4 naguras honing of coarse, but not necessary by any means.