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You can hone on expensive or lower priced stones. My least expensive Jnat is a shubo 100. $70. Its a deal. IMO that and a chosera1k and you can hone for many lifetimes. Naguras are great also,...

Oh wow, just saw the thread was started in 2009. I hope the OP got it figured out by now.

Natural stones create a smoothness that cant be gotten from a synthetic. I don't know why and don't care why though. I have the suehiro 20k and its a great stone, but any one of my jnats can deliver...