Thread: crash course in japanese stones

i'd love a nice japanese stone, but they can be pricey and harder to find and they do have the variations and different grades, so i wouldn't even know where to start (hence asking about it) like you said, it can get complicated

could the japanese razor be honed using a traditonal edge-leading only stroke? this would require you to do a stroke, lift the razor, return to the start and repeat two more time, do the same thing on the other side two times. the backhoning thing seems counterintuitive to what we traditional know/do...but hey, if thats what works.

what about something like this:
http://www.woodcraft.com/family.aspx?FamilyID=4920