Thread: Slurry, Dilution, Grabbing

Originally Posted by WW243

I am using a Zulu as a finisher and have found that dilution of a slurry that seems to work perfectly on a small Escher I use and a big Welsh Slate does not work with the Zulu. When I reach about 3/4 dilution if I can describe it that way the Zulu is fine, smooth, no worries but as the water clears the razor feels like it is on a totally different stone and it is a feeling I do not like at all. Does this make any sense to those members experienced in honing or to Zulu users specifically?

Same here. I think one of mine came from very close to amother strata, and ,the surface was decidedly gritty in places. Prolonged - and I do mean prolonged, arm achingly long lapping solved this, but I still find that I am only happy with the edge 70 per cent of the time and generally go on to another hone that gets the job done quicker.

I agree that it feels better once slurried, but as you thin the slurry it turn s into the hard, sometimes gritty (in my example) stone that it is. It also takes an inordinately long time to remove the rounded, mushy ('soft and smooth' in coticule language) edge left by a decent slurry - for my purposes anyway.

Bear in mind that comes from my point of view as a honer with a tight schedule to meet, though. No doubt if you were honing for yourself and indulged in the time for this stone to do its stuff it would be a different story, as witness the many who raved about it.

Regards,
Neil