I am not sure I fully understand. To me the comparison between nagura and diamond plate is apples to oranges. When you use nagura, unless it is tomonagura you are not using the stone's particulates at all are you, or at least compared to the nagura particles the actual stone's particles are secondary? I might be reading it wrong, but if I am I then fail to see the point of using increasingly fine nagura. When it comes to tomonagura, I would argue that hiving off even 1/20th of your Jnat for this purpose would be equivalent to God knows how many diamond plate slurry sessions (10,000? 20,000?) particularly if you use one appropriate for the job such as a 1200 Atoma or something of similar quality. Let's face it, if you use a crappy diamond plate on a $300+ Jnat you get what you deserve IMO! Don't get me wrong, I do like the idea of the nagura honing method, but I don't think I agree that diamond plates on Jnats will be sub-standard. James.
Well six weeks of learning has certainly made a difference for me. I am now shaving daily(occasionally more often) without razor burn or nicks. My edges are much keener but the real improvement came with blade angle. Holding the blade FLAT against the skin, which of course means the edge must be exceptional, results in ATG passes without any bad effect. The available videos all present shaving with angles so high they make me wince to watch them. Sliding the razor along my skin more like smoothing butter on bread than scraping paint from the barn allow for daily shaving bbs without burn or nicks. Whodda thunk it?
Originally Posted by 32t " how much information those 50 shaves gave us about brush loading (P(50|B L))." Interesting.How are you going to quantify this taking into consideration the [SBLA] the Shavers Brain Learning Ability? Tim Models can be postulated for the "likelihood" function that contain deterministic components as well as the distributional probabilistic assumptions typically assumed for "measurement with error" experiments. Of course, the amount of information contained in data depends on how the data was obtained and for this part of the "learning model" we assume any two "rational" individuals faced with the same data will obtain the same information from it. Where we allow individuals to have different learning abilities is actually in the P(B L) part. Every individual will differ in this regard, and you'd be surprised how much flexibility simply allowing someone's prior beliefs to vary can induce. The next blog post will cover this stuff in more detail. James.
I do not meen that if you dont use Nagura you will not get 100 % of your hone, but i do meen that if you use diamond plate you will not. I think 100 % come from not to use either diamond plate or Nagura hehe But yes you are totally right Base stone is most importent player her ! And i think to smoothen it dose improve performance of your base stone, like on Arkansas stones. Thanks for reading
The only thing I see missing from this blog is the Base: IE: The base stone determines what is going to work and how it is going to work, until you take the time to learn how your base stone works first everything else is a moot point... I do not agree with your assumption that unless you use nagura that you will not get 100 % from your honing, I agree that you need to try all of the options with your razors before you decide on one path.. I really think that the base stone itself along with your honing style determines what is going to give the best outcome... basically this is where the romance with a natural stone begins Good write up here
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