Up for sale is most of my stone collection. Feel free to make me an offer, the worst I can say is no.
Suminagashi Suita / Uchigumori
This rare treat is a double sided piece of suminagashi suita and uchigumori. The suita side is softer, fast, and an amazing polisher in its own right. The uchigumori side is of the harder variety, and is domed which means it was likely used in the sword polishing manner. I have never seen another stone that offers both suita and uchi like this. For me it is a collector’s piece, but somebody else could easily turn this into a workhorse.
197 x 69-70 x 25-30
$450 plus shipping
Shoubudani Suita Renge / Karasu
A rare double sided piece of suita and karasu. Both sides are of a medium hardness - yes both the suita and karasu are fantastic medium hardness polishers. Softer karasu are rare treats, and the fact that it’s paired with a renge suita on the other side makes this piece one of a kind.
211 x 74-75 x 32-35
$750 plus shipping
Miyadaiku Suminagashi Suita (double sided)
A medium hardness suminagashi suita with red and orange tones. The backside is harder and has beautiful swirls of grey, yellow, orange, red, and purple. I would not polish on the backside, it is much more appropriate as an edge finisher. This is an incredibly unique piece that was used by the temple carpenters in Japan.
209 x 75 x 32-35
$600 plus shipping
Miyadaiku Kiita
Medium Hard fine finisher with a kiita color, quite fast and very easy to use. Came with stamps, some are still there. This is another temple carpenter stone that is a top tier performer in my experience.
192 x 70 x 31-33
$400 plus shipping
Suminagashi Suita
Full size and thick workhorse suita. I used this in my main lineup of jnats for sharpening and polishing my Japanese knives and woodworking tools. It is fast, hard-ish, and fine. Once in a while if you use too much pressure it releases a particle that could scratch your jigane, but this stone is easy to figure out. I placed it on a plastic piece because it is attached to a wooden base that has four tiny nails sticking out a millimeter or two from the bottom - this is to keep it from moving around on a workbench. You could probably just hammer them back into the base if you don’t want them marring your work area.
The stone itself is 205 x 76-77 x 28-31
$500 plus shipping
Nakayama Kan
Collector grade full size piece of Nakayama. Amazing razor finisher or for final edges on knives and tools. Silky smooth, hard, fine, and fast with an atoma generated slurry. Has a stamp on one end of the stone, not a Maruka stamp but a Shohonyama Awasedo stamp.
198 x 71-72 x 37-42
$750 plus shipping
Nakayama Asagi Namazu
Perfectly shaped hard Nakayama finisher that can also give a high polish with proper pressure management. This was primarily a razor finisher and a base stone for nagura progressions, but I have used it to polish knives and woodworking tools with great success. This piece seems to be the perfect mix of hard, fine, and easy of use. I haven’t found any of the namazu to be toxic, and the backside has a beautiful even coat of kawa.
204 x 75 x 17-20
$550 plus shipping
Suminagashi Suita / Uchigumori
This rare treat is a double sided piece of suminagashi suita and uchigumori. The suita side is softer, fast, and an amazing polisher in its own right. The uchigumori side is of the harder variety, and is domed which means it was likely used in the sword polishing manner. I have never seen another stone that offers both suita and uchi like this. For me it is a collector’s piece, but somebody else could easily turn this into a workhorse.
197 x 69-70 x 25-30
$450 plus shipping
Shoubudani Suita Renge / Karasu
A rare double sided piece of suita and karasu. Both sides are of a medium hardness - yes both the suita and karasu are fantastic medium hardness polishers. Softer karasu are rare treats, and the fact that it’s paired with a renge suita on the other side makes this piece one of a kind.
211 x 74-75 x 32-35
$750 plus shipping
Miyadaiku Suminagashi Suita (double sided)
A medium hardness suminagashi suita with red and orange tones. The backside is harder and has beautiful swirls of grey, yellow, orange, red, and purple. I would not polish on the backside, it is much more appropriate as an edge finisher. This is an incredibly unique piece that was used by the temple carpenters in Japan.
209 x 75 x 32-35
$600 plus shipping
Miyadaiku Kiita
Medium Hard fine finisher with a kiita color, quite fast and very easy to use. Came with stamps, some are still there. This is another temple carpenter stone that is a top tier performer in my experience.
192 x 70 x 31-33
$400 plus shipping
Suminagashi Suita
Full size and thick workhorse suita. I used this in my main lineup of jnats for sharpening and polishing my Japanese knives and woodworking tools. It is fast, hard-ish, and fine. Once in a while if you use too much pressure it releases a particle that could scratch your jigane, but this stone is easy to figure out. I placed it on a plastic piece because it is attached to a wooden base that has four tiny nails sticking out a millimeter or two from the bottom - this is to keep it from moving around on a workbench. You could probably just hammer them back into the base if you don’t want them marring your work area.
The stone itself is 205 x 76-77 x 28-31
$500 plus shipping
Nakayama Kan
Collector grade full size piece of Nakayama. Amazing razor finisher or for final edges on knives and tools. Silky smooth, hard, fine, and fast with an atoma generated slurry. Has a stamp on one end of the stone, not a Maruka stamp but a Shohonyama Awasedo stamp.
198 x 71-72 x 37-42
$750 plus shipping
Nakayama Asagi Namazu
Perfectly shaped hard Nakayama finisher that can also give a high polish with proper pressure management. This was primarily a razor finisher and a base stone for nagura progressions, but I have used it to polish knives and woodworking tools with great success. This piece seems to be the perfect mix of hard, fine, and easy of use. I haven’t found any of the namazu to be toxic, and the backside has a beautiful even coat of kawa.
204 x 75 x 17-20
$550 plus shipping
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