Thread: slurry mash up?

It happens all the time actually. If you look at Japanese style honing, each Nagura is a different type of stone than the base hone, except the final tomo nagura, which is the same stone type.

A lot of my hones are on the soft side, where I would be hesitant to use a different type of slurry stone. Ideally the slurry stone will be softer than the base, so the slurry is primarily from the rubbing stone and not the base hone. But on harder stones like my PHIG and Arkansas stones I've used a wide variety of stone to build up slurry. Soft synthetics like Norton or Naniwa stones can make for an interesting slurry to play with. I've also got a couple of different coticule rubbing stones, Welsh slates, and a nagura stone to play with. It can work rather well to form a one hone system.