raised a lot of medium thick slurry with soft uchi. five laps of circles and half strokes.
Shaves arm hair.
One more lap to push it and it goes backward
Refresh slurry , lighter color, and do 15 light x strokes. shaves well again.
Now raise slurry with hard uchi
Harder slurry stone for sure. harder to get slurry going and doesn't make much. not as thick at all much slicker. blade sticks to stone almost immediately.
30 push strokes light pressure. arm hairs popping easy. seems SHARP.
15 more push strokes just to see. Sharper.
Did not dilute slurry as I went. volume seems less than soft uchi. Nakayamas seems to soak in the water and slurry but is a hard stone.?
Now onto hard Karasu slurry stone and X strokes.
Slurry easier to make but very light in color and thickness.
30 X strokes with very light pressure.sharp but not really sharper and perhaps less. Onto dilute into water
15 x strokes with NO pressure then another 15 push strokes in sets of 3. feel better hone contact with the pushes.still don''t completely grok the x stroke.
this thing feels SHARP!!!
this jnat is a nice system. this worked very fast. a few more laps on water then 30 linen and leather for this one.
EDIT SHAVE REVIEW:
wow wow wow wow. Could be the closest shave I've ever had and perhaps the BEST edge ever. SUPER sharp and keen but smooth as silk. Did the left side of my face and the entire second pass with this one. Didn't need a third pass and NO touch up with DE. Unreal. SO much easier to use the Jnat stone with progressive slurrys than the coticules. crazy good, record time for a shave too, about FIVE MINUTES!
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