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A month to truly master a stone is unrealistic imo.

We have differing opinions, but its not heated. These discussions are many times the best ones as we present our opinions and let the viewers decide. It seems most things have different approaches,...

Thanks for the comment. Well Im not a scientist but Ive used many different materials to do some scratch tests. I used glass at first but realizing that glass is as hard or harder than most stone...

AN ozuku is a very hard stone. This is a good thing! It is likely it is harder than your base stone. ROund a corner on your dmt to smooth it and use that to produce your slurry. If done carefully...

Well yes I am testing my honing. Absolutely. I dont want to take any preconceived ideas as fact until I can do it myself and say yes or no. The fact that a nagura shaves better than a 4k means that...

Ive shaved off of all of them and there is a a definite refining of the edge in the progression. Continuous sharp and smooth differences between them. According to your comment, then I should forgo...

Thanks for the tip. I have the suehiro 20k, and had the nani 12, not interested in these edges. The last slurry I finish on is any one of 30 tomo naguras I have, these are not coarse stones at all....

My take on honing changed when I went to a honing meetup and met Nelson(bayamontate). At the time I was using dia plates like everyone else. The edges were great but compared to what? Anyway having...

Why have hones then, why not get all dmts to 8k and then use 1 dia slurry or tomo?

I need you to show me scientifically why I prefer vanilla to chocolate. I mean there has to be a reason and empirical evidence. After all you are a scientist. And what exactly does a "good" edge...

Im not a scientist or professional honer. I have experimented with many different hones, cotis, synths, eschers, jnats, cnat, pastes etc. As well as many different ways to hone a razor. Again no...

I find that using naturals throughout to give the smoothest edge. I wish I could agree with you, as it would save me lots of time. I use a chosera 1k, then all naturals, a striped iyoto to clean up...

I see that Im vastly outnumbered here with the slurry vs nagura methods. Well I will not argue that a diamond plate isnt capable of putting a great edge on. BUT the AHA! edges Ive gotten were off a...

Just so you know, 325 grit is something like 45 microns. An 8k hone particles is about 3 microns. I have no idea what size particles will flake off the stone with the dmt, but imo you set the edge...

Dmt slurry works fine although i think a nagura progression can lead to better results, well at least thats what i get. Havent used a dmt for slurry in a while. One thing that you can also do is use...

Not answering for anybody but Lv 5 is a hard stone, they can be graded harder like 5+ ++ and +++, but it depends who is grading them. Its not rocket science thats for sure. JNS and Alex Gilmore use...

I have found slight slurry finishes better. BUT I do have a few hard suitas and asagis even that finish water only very nicely. As was said, look at the bevel and see how polished or scratchy it is...