Show us your Japanese Natural Whetstones
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My ugly ducking for the day. A kind of transition stone, an essentially white suita with renge on one side and a type of amber color sunashi suita on the reverse. Both sides kick ***.
Alex
Alex
Cool looking stone Alex
Steve56
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Nice suita Alex
Cheers, Steve
Cheers, Steve
@alx gilmore that is one beautiful stone !!! BTW the Shinden seems to be the one I always grab now
Just got this on the bay. I hope that it will be fun and get here safe.
Steve56
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Here's a nice old Kato-era iro maruka, worn about halfway down but lots of razor life left in this one. It's very hard, pretty fast and super fine, the first test on the Gold Dollar gave silent HHT root in or out, and not every stone will do that with a Gold Dollar. Happy to see this one, Kato-San's stones are becoming less common.
Cheers, Steve
Cheers, Steve
Cool looking stone there Steve.
Steve56
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Thanks Nick. It's an oddly colored one for sure.
Cheers, Steve
Cheers, Steve
If it is as nice as the jmat I got from that russian seller you should be quite happy
Don't know if this is just Iromono or Akane or even murasaki. It was sold as a Narutaki Akane tomae 4+. Speed and cutting test seems really good. Maybe more of a 5 or more in hardness though.
My new Shobudani 100 came today 
Nice looking stone. How do you like it?
Haven't had a chance to try it out yet all of my razors are shaving so I'll have to reset one maybe tomorrow and play around with my nagura!
They're nice stones for sure. Enjoy.My new Shobudani 100 came today
timwcic
"Look what I found"
What Did I Do Now!
I did not wake up this and said "today is the day I am going to purchase my first Jnat". It was the furthest thing on my mind. But lo and behold while searching my local Internet classified site and an ad popped up for razor hones for sale. A few emails and a few texts later and a "by the way I have a Japanese stone I want to sell". I now have my first Jnat. I was told it is a Nakayama Asagi. Its width is between 3 1/2 to 2 1/2 by 8 inches long and weighs 858 g. I have no other Jnat to compare to, but this stone is hard and very fine. Having zero experience with stones like this, any additional ID info appreciated.
I did not wake up this and said "today is the day I am going to purchase my first Jnat". It was the furthest thing on my mind. But lo and behold while searching my local Internet classified site and an ad popped up for razor hones for sale. A few emails and a few texts later and a "by the way I have a Japanese stone I want to sell". I now have my first Jnat. I was told it is a Nakayama Asagi. Its width is between 3 1/2 to 2 1/2 by 8 inches long and weighs 858 g. I have no other Jnat to compare to, but this stone is hard and very fine. Having zero experience with stones like this, any additional ID info appreciated.
Nice stone, Tim. Did you buy the Mikawa Nagura as well?
timwcic
"Look what I found"
Thanks, they were a BST a while ago anticipating a Jnat in my future one day
My new Suita. An Ozuku suita with iromono blushing and strawberry layers and a lovely Narutaki Karasu renge suita and I have noticed some Kuro renge in it too more toward the top end. This one is very silky feeling. From early tests shaves they are both good hard finishing stones. Sorry no wet pics.
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