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Honing Razors and Nihonkamisori by Kousuke Iwasaki (naturalwhetstones.com)

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[–] HomeAwayFromHone 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I've had it a while too, just occurred to me it fits well here. I definitely don't do that for 10 minutes but often a few times here and there almost out of superstition where I hope it might clean up a minor foil edge in case I'd used too much pressure. Thanks for the vid, I'd never attempted to ascertain if this was actually doing anything so your experiment is encouraging. Before this document I saw it mentioned in the balsa strop thread at B&B as a "pull stroke".

[–] gcgallant 2 points 10 hours ago

I assume that Iwasaki primarily used a sequence of nagura on a very hard finishing stone. In that system, any edge conditions you have at the finishing stages are difficult to deal with because the abrasive on the stone surface and in a finishing nagura is so small that only a tiny amount of material is removed with each stroke. So, it will take a lot of strokes to clean edge anomalies under those conditions. There are other ways to accomplish burr removal and wire-edge removal. Iwaski's method seemed valid to me. As I mentioned before, it is not what I do normally.