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Water only: use it all the time to touch up an already sharp blade, also to take the edge of a 16k and give it the Zulu finish. Sharp and smooth, with a presence of the edge.

Glycerin...

I have taken an edge from an 8k Shapton glass to the Zulu with slury and then diluting and it improve the edge significantly IMHO. I do prefer to go from the 8k to the 16k Shapton then the Zulu to...

Just shaved with my latest experiment and it was a success!

I have been reading and watching videos of some Jnats honing. I have several 1" wide vintage Turingians that I have found to be slow...

I don't know if it is or not. All I know is that the edges improve as I dilute the Zulu slury to water only, and from the little I have read on Jnats, people leave the slury on till they finished....

Hi Brook, thanks for the feed back! I was thinking I could simulate (synthetically) what's happening with friable grit stones, that as you work the slurry, it breaks down in smaller garnets or what...

I have found the same, the edges are a bit sharper after my 16k shapton glass then ZG than just going from the 8K to the ZG. Specially true on my three Shefields I've done. I notice that in some...

I go first to the hard wool felt (30-40) then leather (100). I always do 100 after any touch up or honing. If it is just a touch up, I may go directly to the leather. I have tried it both ways and...

So, here was my last experiment. I was going to take the Waterville finished on the Zulu and take it back to the 8k, then the 16k S. Glass and shave, but with such a sweet edge I dicided to do it a...

Hi Vasilis, I'm not familiar with "one stone honing method", could you point me to some reading or explain? Thanks Double O

Well, I also did some more experiments! Took an e-bay special that I had taken the time to sand and polish, put cheap pre manufactured scales because it looked fine by the edge (had a lot of active...

Glen, I hope one day I can sharpen even 1/10 of the razors you have sharpened in your life time. If I gave the impression I'm trying to say "my stone is better than your stone", forgive me for that,...

With all the talk about particles size, auto slury, no auto slury, particles braking down as you hone, flakes, I decided to take my beloved Dovo stainless steel finished Zulu edge and send it back to...

I haven't read the other forums, but after talking to Jimmy yesterday and hearing what he thought about the Zulu and what others honners he respect tought about it, I came to the same conclusion....

I like it just fine like this

Skin on side

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Clean on the others

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Makes sense, thanks! Double O

Yes, by the way, DMT 325 is a kind of diamond plate. By the way, someone here used a 1500 sand paper to do the same. So it's not necessary to use diamond plates, it just makes it eassy. Double O

LOL! Well Jimmy, if I could set bevels like you, then I would entertain that tittle,lol! I knew you could fix it if messed it up, that's why I had to try.

The truth is, I'm eager for you to try...

Well, I did my star razor, a solingen F.W. Engels special. The thing was sharp, it got sharper and kept the smoothness. Did 30 passes on 16k shapton glass, then did 3 sets of 20 circles + 20 X...

Another 36 hour growth mown down by a Dovo stainless finished on the Zulu Grey! WOW! The sharpest and smoothest shave I ever gotten from those Dovo stainless steel razor. I have two of them, I...

WOW! i just finished shaving with the Torry this morning, after a 36 hour growth and what a shave! To recap what I've done with the Torry, I first took it to the 16K glass Shapton, then to the .5...

This is an update on the testing (read fun) I'm doing with the Zulu. After the improved feeling and sharpness I had on my Torry, after doing 25 laps on a water only Zulu, I wanted to see if the edge...

Zib, you did get offended, well don't. Your reviews alone got me to buy a completely unknown stone. But "believe nothing you read and only half what you see" (Jimmy's dad quote). I will now see for...

Ok, I finally got to lapp my Zulu Grey. Did a 200 w/d carbide sand paper, follow by 400, well worn DMT325, 800, 1000, 1200 w/d carbide sand paper and then finished with an atoma 1200. I don't know if...

Can I use the back of the DMT plate as a flat surface to do the wet/dry progression? Quality J -nat? Never had one or read about it. Guessing, need to keep surface scratch free and mirror like?...

How about the lapping suggestion?