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I suppose they allow you to do coarser work with a finer stone. I don't have anything but a botan nagura, and I don't find much use for it. I might find more use if I were using a kamisori that had a...

Well, buying one of the softer hones to use as a bevel setter will make it so that you know a lot more about them real quick! It just might not be what you want to learn.

Synthetics are hard to...

FWIW, the good hard fine stones that are truly hard, smooth, fine no scratch, etc, and that have a verifiable link back to the nakayama mine have always been expensive, just as it should be.

That was an inaccurate response to what I said. I said I don't like the numbering, which is something that appears to have been made up by the dealers. It's an unnecessary and potentially too precise...

As an out and back (left and came back), it's somewhat disturbing to me to see all of these numbers attached to hones. this numbering is a new thing, and all you have to say is that you have a maruka...