New Ozuku - Shiroto Asagi

[Gamma]

Seems to be quite hard. Looks promising. That's another Ozuku in the background, I honed up that Towa FB on it. That edge is screaming keen. Shave test is tomorrow.
I still have to lap the new one. To be honest - I kinda want to keep it as it is with the stamps in the box.

 

[Obiwan]

Very nice!

 

[raccoonandbrush]

Nice! Enjoy!

 

[gnoils]

I agree, I'd hate to lose the stamps. I don't own a JNat, so I have no idea, but can you not use the other side instead?

 

[Gamma]

The other side of this one has skin, which I could lap off but that would devalue the stone significantly.

 

[gnoils]

What do you mean by skin?

 

[Gamma]

Skin is a (usually) hard-*** layer of stone that you find on one or a few sides of a Jnat.
Quality stones usually have a good amount of skin left on them; certain mines, layers, strata produced stones with skin that has distinguishing characteristics. Sorta like a fingerprint.
Looks more like bark on a tree than skin though.

 

[Wid]

Very nice Keith.

 

[gnoils]

Ah I see.

Very nice stone, btw.

Skin is a (usually) hard-*** layer of stone that you find on one or a few sides of a Jnat.
Quality stones usually have a good amount of skin left on them; certain mines, layers, strata produced stones with skin that has distinguishing characteristics. Sorta like a fingerprint.
Looks more like bark on a tree than skin though.

 

[Doc226]

Nice rock-as always.

 

[Gamma]

Thanks everyone. I probably will lap it eventually, but not for a little while.

 

[Doc226]

Thanks everyone. I probably will lap it eventually, but not for a little while.

I know what you mean but I would be itching to use it. Wish the stamps were placed on the sides.

 

[Kentos]

Make a color copy of the top, laminate it, and use it as a dust cover over the stone in the box. Everytime you open it you can reminisce about when it was new.

 

[Gamma]

Thought about doing that actually. I'd like to get a real nice box to laminate the pic onto though.
At the very least - I'll save the label.
No rush to decide really - I have an Iyoto that has to be lapped first.

 

[joshua1970]

Make a color copy of the top, laminate it, and use it as a dust cover over the stone in the box. Everytime you open it you can reminisce about when it was new.

ha that's genius!

I've gotten into the habit of taking pics of the stones/stamps, and Keith was able tos end me a pic pre-lapped of one of the stones I got from him too

another beauty Keith! thanks for sharing!

 

[mainaman]

Looks good but what is Shiroto, may be it was Shiro?
The stamps do not say what the mine of origin is.

 

[Gamma]

The origin of the stone was relayed verbally - translated of course.

If I understand everything correctly - the paper label says something about it being Narutaki, but in this case the word 'Narutaki' is used in a broad sense, and it does not indicate the name of the mine. It's more of a reference to the general area.

Again - as it was explained to me - Shiroto is a tunnel or mine that is connected to the Ozuku mine/tunnel/tunnels.

 

[mainaman]

The origin of the stone was relayed verbally - translated of course.

If I understand everything correctly - the paper label says something about it being Narutaki, but in this case the word 'Narutaki' is used in a broad sense, and it does not indicate the name of the mine. It's more of a reference to the general area.

Again - as it was explained to me - Shiroto is a tunnel or mine that is connected to the Ozuku mine/tunnel/tunnels.

Narutaki is a mine but also the region of mines which include nakayama narutaki and shobudani IIRC.
Usually when the stone is of unknown origin from one of those mines it is called Narutaki, but it means it comes from the region.
There is a mine (can't remember the name) that is pretty much connected to Ozuko but the stones are not of the same quality in general. This one looks nice and light gray hope it is of quality.

 

[Gamma]

Yes - that's the broader-sense of the word 'Narutaki' that I was referring to.
Can't speak for the general consensus of stones from any one source, but The Imanishi stones from this source, Shiroto/Ozuku, have been reported to be very high-quality.
This is the 3rd one out of 3 that were hand-selected for me that I've purchased - the first two were exceptional - this one may just be a tad-bit harder than the other two.

 

[jred]

Can we get a pic of the bark side? Now I'm curious