Michi
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This is a pretty decent overview of different types of stones for beginners:
Pretty good.
Although when he gets around to explaining how he considers it a good idea to use a grit-matched nagura to clean a 12k Super Stone, I think he comes across as either incompetent, or wanting to encourage sales of expensive naguras, for whatever reason. The high-grit synth naguras make terrible cleaning stones. And expensive ones, at that.
Same here. For synthetics, I don't think it matters all that much. I can put a nice slurry on any of my stones using an Atoma 400. For Jnats, it's probably different, but I don't have much experience with them. For what it's worth, I get a nice slurry on my Okudo Shiro Suita (around 8k-10k grit equivalent) with the Atoma.I figure there really isn't enough difference between an 8k and a 12k to bother matching the grits, why not just rub the fine stones against each other to clean, lap, build slurry, etc.
Pretty good.
Although when he gets around to explaining how he considers it a good idea to use a grit-matched nagura to clean a 12k Super Stone, I think he comes across as either incompetent, or wanting to encourage sales of expensive naguras, for whatever reason. The high-grit synth naguras make terrible cleaning stones. And expensive ones, at that.
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