Honing forum is slow these days. So... Hone Pics power, ACTIVATE!

[MileMarker60]

Closeups of honing surface wet so we can see any patterning please.

Just to be clear. I know of 3 other similar example. As of now, no one as been able to positively ID it.
Heck, I even sent the pics to a few Geologist to get a guess. Some had guesses but no 2 were the same

 

[Gamma]

Nice looking mystery stone Brian

 

[Gamma]

As per JimR's translation of Iwasaki's book there are 10 layers of nagura as follows
1. Mejiro
2. Tenjou
3. Buchikou
4. Koma
5. Botan
6. Layered Botan
7. Mushi
8. Atsu
9. Ban
10. Shikiban.

My list shows those layers, but there are two layers of Tenjou, and one more layer - 'Serizuna'.
Allegedly - 4 layers cant be used.

 

[Bayamontate]

 

[Proinsias]

Loving the nagura porn, I'm keeping my distance from the jnat rabbit hole for the time being.

So far I've got:

4 coti's:


2 Cnat's and a King 1k/6k combo:




A purple welsh slate from aj:


A Muller stone:


2 other mystery stones and a stone I think is a translucent ark which laughs at my lapping powers,pics to follow shortly

 

[SliceOfLife]

This is my Main coti.

It's a Vintage? natural combo. Got it on the Bay. Box is custom and by FAR the most recent I've ever seen, wood still has wood smells. Certainly not over 40 years old... probably much newer. I wouldn't be surprised if <15-20yrs. Stone is about as cookie cutter perfect as you could get. It eats steel fast (but not the fastest) on water, but is plenty smooth and hard for an easy finish. It slurrys easily (not the easiest I've seen). It is almost dead even 50/50 coti/bbw. The cut is exact. The surface isn't unusually beautiful (looks like a bundle of white and yellow strings with a glipse of blue here and there), but is immacute. Feel while honing is great, the one flaw being a bit of a vacuum effect on water. (like a magnetic razor on a DMT plate). It's really a pleasure to work with, though I've had 2 or 3 I liked using better (a vintage that was matte peach with ZERO markings which I wish I never sold, and a couple bouts that looked the same (no markings yellow to peach, very matte almost dusty looking surfaces), which if they'd been cut stones instead of bouts I'd have kept over this one.

The Slurry there is like the "Better" stones I mentioned that I've sold. It's a vintage nat 40x40 out of a barbers bag I got who stopped working in the 60's (Rudolph Cook, His Union stamp book was in bag... last one was Dec 1963). He had 4 or 5 small (40x40, 50x50) stones of various types, including what I THINK is an unusual looking 50x50 cutlers green... with... a slurry stone. He used these 40x40 and 50x50's as HONES, not rubbing stones. Anyway the stones gorgeous. Smooth as glass, So soft it slurrys any coti in seconds. If I was willing to hone on a 40x40, I'd be in heaven.

 

[Drybonz]

There are some very nice hones in this thread. I was inspired to take a group photo or two of my own humble jnat setup.

You will see naguras at the top, and the bottom row is Nakayama kiita and asagi... then Shobudani.

 

[Kentos]

Drybonz-

How are those grooves in the tomonagura doing for you? Does it make enough of a difference with the slurry?

 

[linguist]

A few months ago i had nothing now addicted to HAD!

 

[Obiwan]

All nice pics guys. Beautiful stones!

 

[SliceOfLife]

What are all those? BBW, Jnat, Coti, Jnat, Jnat, Charnley? And I'm not even gonna guess at the top.

 

[linguist]

coarse to fine (left to right)
BBW,
vintage coti(soft),
vintage coti (hard),
turkish slate(soft, pure,smooth but finer than coti)
turkish slate
(top) turkish slate slurry stone
Cretan hone(very dense and the finest of all)

 

[Gamma]

The Ultimate Jnat.

Sorry - I had to say it...

Nakayama Asagi Maruka with Tomo cut from this stone.

 

[MileMarker60]

Here are 2 Jnats I recently added.
1) Ozuku 8"x3"x1.5"
2) Hideriyama 7.5"x3.5"x1.25"

 

[paco664]

The Ultimate Jnat.

Sorry - I had to say it...

Nakayama Asagi Maruka with Tomo cut from this stone.

i actually snorted with laughter.....

 

[Kentos]

Too bad these things are so fragile and expensive...would love to have a large 5 person rotating Jnat/hone stone trading thingeemajigee.

 

[Drybonz]

Drybonz-

How are those grooves in the tomonagura doing for you? Does it make enough of a difference with the slurry?

Kent, I got that one that way, and the main difference I see is that it glides a lot better on the stone and doesn't scratch it as much... which I like a lot. That is not my favorite tomo of the group, though, and I have considered putting grooves in another one... need to find out what tool to use to make nice straight grooves like that, though.

The Ultimate Jnat.

Garnet count?

 

[cleanshaved]

The Ultimate Jnat.

Sorry - I had to say it...

Nakayama Asagi Maruka with Tomo cut from this stone.

crumbling choseras now don't be a Daniel.........

 

[Sejanus]

Holy cow.. so many Nagura stones.

The amount of Koma in this thread is making my head spin!

I wish Koma was more available.. I need to get at least one before they are all gone.. haha

 

[Seraphim]

Oh yes!