Quote Originally Posted by celticcrusader View Post
I'm starting to getting to grips with this Nakayama 5+ stone and the Nagura also cut from a very fine Nakayama, both were kindly gifted to me by a good friend from Japan, the edges are nice the one thing I'm not keen on is the faffing about with slurry and dilution plus the fact that naturals are much slower than synthetics.

But the smoothness that a natural brings out, is well worth the extra time and effort.

I find the synthetics to be a bit too crisp, for my liking.

Maybe try a full synthetic progression, then go back to the natural for a final finishing. Should only take an additional 5-10 minutes, in honing