Thread: Using faerie dust for Naniwa and Natural stone honers

If your finishing stone generates slurry, after honing you can make some slurry and save the slurry onto a piece of paper or leather. Let it dry and strop your razor on that. It will be much finer than the original finishing stone.

My Naniwa 12k's slurry on paper is kind of like CrOx but cuts faster. The results are very nice, very smooth. The technique would probably be more noticeable on 8k stones, because its slurry on a soft medium is at least twice as fine.

Try it and let us know how it works for you.

interesting iam going to have to try that ..thanks

A fellow knife nut in the bay area has been testing that for years. He really likes the results.

I have read about Japanese sword smiths saving slurry for various uses. I don't think I'd heard of it for stropping before - that's a cool idea.

Are you just stropping the razor on dusted printer paper? This has me thinking, thanks!

In japanase sword polishing the dust of the final stone (i.e. Uchigomori)
is saved and used for cleaning purpose.
It is called Uchigo Powder and usually comes in a ball-like applier.

The Uchigo is powdered on the blade and gently wiped off.
This removes excess oil and re-"polishes" the surface ever so slightly

I heard of a story where barbers used coticule dust and treated their leathers with it.
I highly recommend to try this dust method on paper before experimenting with good leathers