Originally Posted by
gssixgun
I hate to disagree but that never stopped me before... :)
Don't confuse Western razors with everything else, when you are honing everything else including Kamisori, I would agree with you, as the pressure is quite different and allows for the breakdown of the slurry...
Honing western razors this is simply not true, the pressure is much much much lighter or should be, and doesn't allow for the breakdown of the slurry...
As you must know it is the friable effect of the slurry that creates the finest edges on "most" of the Japanese naturals...
Now there are ways around this such as leaving the dried slurry on the stone after use but that poses other problems..
Using a DMT 325 OR 600 to raise a slurry allows for the plate to do much of the work before the Western razor touches the slurry..
Now all that I just wrote is a moot point if you are simply using your stone as a base to use a progression of Nagura and you are "honing" from start to finish on one stone, but if you are using that expensive finisher as a finisher, then this does come into effect...
Now you can believe what you please and use your stone as you chose but I think maybe you should try what I am saying on one or two of your stones before you discount it...