DDPslice
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My issue has to do with polishing. I have a mizuno 240 hontanren clad with blue#2 the stone I'm concerned about is a Hakka koppa that is super soft (lv2) and the finish is a beautiful hazy-ness. Except, when I use the jnat, I get these intermitant large gashes in the jigane that I cannot buff out with uchigamori fingerstones. Feeling the slurry/mud I do not notice any hard grains, it is very smooth, as expected from the finish. But I do not know where the gashes are coming from. I've created the slurry from a DMT coarse plate, honzan, Torijo fingerstone, and from just working the knife to create a slurry. I am running out of ideas to test if it's me or the stone. I don't really deburr at this stage because I consider it a polishing and not a sharpening (is that wrong?), but my thought is that maybe this stone contains some quartz or other impurity that I cannot feel. Or am I creating a burr that is flaking off when I think im polishing but actually taking off more metal then I think and not realizing it? But I feel this is unlikely because of the hardness of the blue steel. The knife is sharp and I mostly use it for meats because it's so reactive, so I don't get a true feel for how strong/long the edge keeps unlike my SS that I'm constantly chopping veggies with. Any advice/suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Also, pics will follow, I just have to post them from my laptop when I get home.