Steve56
Ask me about shaving naked!
How many times have you jnat koppa owners needed some of these? Answer, a lot, lol
Show us your Japanese Natural Whetstones
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Been a few years since I bought a new jnat, and all the ones I had kept we’re already mounted, so when I bought this stone I had to Figure out a surface to hone it on. Luckily I have a ton of sheets of neoprene about an eighth of an inch thick around here so I just folded one over in thirds and then rest the stone on that, they compress just enough to keep it nice and balanced during use
I’m more of a paper towel guy
I was wondering who that stone went to.
Ohhhhhhhhhh you got that lovely gigantic kiita koppa. Lucky dog!
I like the looks of that stone. What can ya tell us about it?
Steve56
Ask me about shaving naked!
Yes, I tried it out on my trip to Sonoma to see my friend Alex. I was on the fence so to speak, but I really like deep strata stones as razor finishers, so when he put it up on his site I had to have it.
timwcic
"Look what I found"
Not trying to hijack the thread, I thought this was interesting. One of my pickers sent me this pictures of this item he found for sale. A Urasaki Hakata Swordsman Figurine. Shows a hunk of rock on a Dai used by a Master. I told him to find me a stone that size and the bills with the zeros will come out
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Very nice! Is the back flat?
Good way to lose some toes.
Hoard stone from Alex, lovely razor finisher. Slurry will dry out during use if you let it. Easy to raise slurry, and it isn't the hardest stone in the world but is plenty hard enough for finishing and surprisingly resists self slurry during razor honing. With thin slurry, it will still leave a black mark in 1 stroke with pressure. Clean water darkens to black with hard pressure and some work. Effortless HHT5s so far with each blade I've honed on it. Pics are from before sealing it. Softer lines are not a problem for the razor and can't be felt during use. I can't get enough of the color and it is at least as fun to look at as it is to use. This thing is the kinda stuff dreams are made out of. This is my second stone from Alex, first hoard stone, and favorite stone I own. Alex is the bomb dot com.
Love it. Great score indeed.
Yeah does look very similar!
My stone is freshly cut, not more than 3 days before I took the photo. Stamps about a day old.
I told him I didn't really care about size, but I want the hardest stone you can cut without any suji.
Took him less than a week before it was done, 80x155x17mm stone for about half I expected to pay for it.
Only honed on it a few times, but very smooth slight texture feedback. No stress to try ninja moves over suji lines aswell. Really happy with mine.
Pre night shift time spent with sunashi suita.
3k chosera to worn atoma 1200 slurry to tomo. Finished on slurry. HHT5 root in and out. Next step is a shaving razor hone and shave.
3k chosera to worn atoma 1200 slurry to tomo. Finished on slurry. HHT5 root in and out. Next step is a shaving razor hone and shave.
I've been building boxes for my brushes lately, so I decided to give some of my stones boxes, too. The intention is to put them all in boxes eventually, designed to match the theme.. So we have a bit of suminagashi going here, and I've used this Nepalese marbled paper to cover the bottom of the box.
Next up may have to be a little lotus themed box, for the Ohira Suita.
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Next up may have to be a little lotus themed box, for the Ohira Suita.
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Very very hard nakayama kiita maruka. The maruka part wasn't known to me and neither to the seller. It appeared after I got the stone wet during lapping and was brushing the sides to clean them. 
Great looking stone! Ghost Maruka stamps are the best.
Wow. Is this going up for sale?[emoji7][emoji7][emoji7][emoji1786][emoji1786][emoji1786]
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