Photos of Alternate Grit Pattern Stones, Show Yours

[Kcnwea]

The fabled, Les Lescher. Nice stones.

I always take take that stone with me on the road just in case I need a refresh. At home I still reach for my 8in les lat and larger thuris, but I don't think I'll ever get rid of the Les Lescher. You hooked me up with some good stones, David.

 

[AlJuwaiedAK]

Natural Combo Ozuku Asagi


Something Sexy On A Jnat

 

[AlJuwaiedAK]

This stone is highly hallucinogenic

 

[AlJuwaiedAK]

Beautiful Les Latneuses with lovely renege

 

[alx gilmore]

I picked this stone up recently, it is a Japanese suita. Also this unknown razor marked E. Colline, Garantito 12 1/2.

Alx

 

[Doorsch]

Thuris in da House ;-)
Big thanks to Peter!!

 

[Doorsch]

A Pierre aiguiser naturelle de Saurat from Member "Sharpchef"

 

[Steve56]

Very pretty stone!

cheers, Steve

 

[AlJuwaiedAK]

Lapis Lazuli Stone

The little slurry stone is really nice looking, I will post more information on the stone and the honing experience later, all I can say now that it was a very successful experiment.

 

[mikael]

That's really interesting. Looking forward to your post on it.

 

[alx gilmore]

Razor quality on the color side, a little rougher on the karasu side.

 

[Steve56]

Ah you lapped the back Alex! That's a pretty little stone.

Cheers, Steve

 

[alx gilmore]

Are the red spots in the back garnet? or maybe corundum? Alex? Thanks.

I am really not sure what the minerals are but I have not heard yet of garnets mentioned along with the Jnat stones. I am more inclined to guess some type of water soluable mineral that leached into the stone layer. Sorry I couldn't help more.

Alex

 

[AlJuwaiedAK]

Here is an interesting one, I bought this JNat couple months ago as Black Nashiji from Japanese Barbershop located in Sakai where I buy most of my JNats, the seller told me the stone is a Narutaki, but without a stamp it can’t be confirmed.

I bought it mainly for the look as I haven’t see any JNat look like it ever, it has lots of Nashiji yellow spots on it lapped surface and they feel somewhat gritty but nothing toxic, the stone is heavy it weight 720g for a 5”*3”*1” it is not a very hard stone 4.5 maybe 5 certainly not feeling like a hard Ozuku at all, the stone has that earthy JNats aroma, a hint of Kawa is lift.

Performance

It is fast cutting stone faster than all of my small collection of JNats no auto-slurring leaves nice fine edge with a hazy mirror finish, the shave is just fine nothing impressive yet nothing bad either. I tested it with a knife and its cut really fast with medium to light pressure, it is hard to tell due to the color of the stone but I think with the knife honing it maybe auto-slurred a bit or it might be the metal swrif I don’t really know….

Interesting stone, and what would be more interesting is if Alex or JNat expert can tell us more about such rare stone (at least to me).


Front

Side

Back

Wet

close up


I am thinking of lapping the backside to try it, it seems to have very little spots maybe it will performe differently
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Regards,

 

[David]

This one came in a paddle from a French seller.

 

[RusenBG]

Dalmatine coti Gooooood stuff They dont make them like this one now ha ha ha once they know how to make a coticule

 

[Gamma]

This one came in a paddle from a French seller.

Cool looking spotted doggie David!

 

[David]

Thanks Keith.

Here's another one, my one and only TOS. I really enjoy using this little guy

 

[David]

Here's another one of my favorite stones. It's a beefy little 4x2 that's full of manganese that goes all the way through down to the bottom of the BBW

 

[David]

Striped Iyoto