Todays honing was both a rewarding interesting learning curve and also experimental, this is my first foray into the world of Japanese naturals, well let us start at the beginning firstly I'm a big fan of synthetic stones Chosera Naniwa and my lovely Suehiro Gokumyo 20K, the Japanese stone in question was gifted to me by a good friend from Japan, he gave me the low down on the stone before he sent it, he said the Stone was a Nakayama +5 very hard and a very fine finisher, also included was matching Nagura rubbing stone, well here we go let's get the show on the road, firstly I had to choose the razor to test how good this stone is, razor chosen Hoshi Tombo 8000 quarter hollow 13/16, the razor as always been a top-quality shaver, so next thing to do was totally kill the edge on the corner of my Chosera 5K, next step reset the bevel on the 5K and finish on my Snow White 8K, firstly I lightly lapped the Nakayama splashed some water then proceded to create some slurry using the Nagura, I always tape my own razors this was no different, the first few passes I could instantly tell the stone was very fine, I put in about 100 passes then I started to dilute the slurry down, another 50 passes I now washed all slurry off the stone then checked the razors edge under the loupe, the polished bevel looks great, ownwards we go with a clean wet stone no slurry only water another 50 passes, finished edge looks very nice stropped the edge looks and feels great, the ultimate test is yet to come the shave, having said that I'm pretty confident I nailed it.
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