Thread: my natural progression

Like most of us I started my honing adventure with the work horse Norton 4k/8k and then naniwa 12k ss. As my skills improved I added quite a few stones to my lineup. I now use natural hones exclusively past bevel set. I just like the idea of sharpening blades in the way they did before electricity.

Currently I'm using Chosera 800 followed by a quick run on the ss 1k which I think helps mellow out the scratches.

I then follow that with a nice piece of BBW on one of my combination coticules. I go medium slurry and dilute to light.

I then move onto heavy slurry coticule diluted to light slurry.

At this point I move back to BBW with water.

I then follow that up with light slurry coticule to water strokes.

Finally I finish on one of my coticules (color depending on mood.) lately what I believe is a blue-green (though more likely dark blue). It gives a beautiful grayish slurry.

Of course linen to rid it of any loose metal/burs and then leather


This gives me my most comfortable shaves to date. Eventually I will move to JNATS once I have the faintest clue where to properly start. A full nagura progression one of the days.

Thanks for sharing. I follow almost the same procedure 1k to coti. I however found personally I didn't like the BBW for razors.

I am glad it works for you

Something about naturals. All this recent talk about coti's has me looking for one. Thanks for posting.

Originally Posted by Steel

Something about naturals. All this recent talk about coti's has me looking for one. Thanks for posting.

Nothing too special about them. I just enjoy their looks and feels. You probably would too. Some people do some don't it really all depends on the stone you get too. Natural variance and what not.

Happy hunting