🪨 Nagura Stone by Iman Review

Excellent for cleaning and leveling whetstones. If you use sharpening stones for a while, they will become "loaded" with metal shavings and essentially lose their ability to keep sharpening. This stone is just what you need to scrape the metal off the stone and continue sharpening. Only criticism is that it's a bit small. If it were another half inch larger in two dimensions, it would be easier to handle and use.

There is an amazing video on YouTube of William Ng and his approach to sharpening. A Nagura stone like this is the key to finer grit waterstones if you're actually mud polishing a ground edge. It works! Unless you're a carpenter, you might not enjoy a really sharp tool. But if you're a carpenter and you like the idea of using a plane or chisel to make shavings, shavings so fine that they become translucent, then this Nagura Stone will help you if you're following the water stone path. a really…

These should only be used on 1000 grit stones or finer or they will pit Nagura stones. Use each of the 4 sides evenly to keep it square and flat. It is used to clean the stone of small metal particles after use, to re-level the cutting stone after use, and to create the cutting foam required for fine sharpening. Only use it on a damp stone as the water will outweigh the particles so you can simply wipe clean the stone you are working with. If the Nagura stone vibrates when pressed, the stone…