So I've trying to resolve some of my ignorance of natural hones. I've gone through the library and post but still have broad gaps in my understanding.
It seems there are a several varieties. A coticle is from Belgium and contains garnets as cutting agents. Eshers is a brand name of a German, I believe, quartz stone but can mean the stone variety itself and chosera is actually a Naniwa synthetic. There are others but these are the ones I hear most often
Then there are Japanese stones. Several varieties but to keep it simple they are generally called jnats.
Now if that is reasonably correct. The brunt of my question is about slurry, slurry stones, something I think must be a slurry stone, nagura, and how do you use them?
Slurry is stone wear it seems, produced by honeing or by rubbing the hone with a slurry stone? How does one chose a slurry stone? Is it different than the base hone? Something I just read suggested someone was using a jnat and it seemed 4 or 5 different "nagura" stones. Whaaaaa?
Is there a newbies guide to this seemingly arcane bidness?
It also seems only a few natural stones use slurry. Slate, Scottish and Arkansas don't seem to. They are also mentioned less as well. Lower quality of the edge??
Thanks
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