I'm hoping I can get some Jnat pros to chime in on some issues I am having on my Nakayama Asagi Mariuchi. I have been honing on it and suddenly I felt like something was a little "scratchy" sometimes. Decided to get out the 90x scope and I have something that keeps popping up no matter how much I flatten it (with a atoma 1200). Under the scope it looks like little salt pieces (Not as big , but are white and look similar to salt under the scope.). I am wondering if I somehow got a layer of undesirable sediment or something like that in my stone (its a natural stone so I am aware that these things are not perfect).
Can I flatten the stone to get through this? is this normal? What should I do?
Unfortunately, this was my most expensive stone by far and while the shaves were great off of this at the begining (I remember going through my whole normal progression and then doing 20 or so swipes in slurry on the stone and being amazed at how great the shave was), It seems the performance of this has dropped off and I am assuming it has to do with the particles that I am seeing.
Not sure if this is normal or not. I also managed to get a picture of the particle if I could forward it for someone to take a look at. I will be totally bummed if this is what is called inclusions or some other undesirable particle in my stone. I have resorted to using my stone by going first with the spine as one would when stropping - this seems to clear the bigger particles and seemed to improve the shave, but I certainly didn't do this at the begining when I first got this stone.
Can I flatten the stone to get through this? is this normal? What should I do?
Unfortunately, this was my most expensive stone by far and while the shaves were great off of this at the begining (I remember going through my whole normal progression and then doing 20 or so swipes in slurry on the stone and being amazed at how great the shave was), It seems the performance of this has dropped off and I am assuming it has to do with the particles that I am seeing.
Not sure if this is normal or not. I also managed to get a picture of the particle if I could forward it for someone to take a look at. I will be totally bummed if this is what is called inclusions or some other undesirable particle in my stone. I have resorted to using my stone by going first with the spine as one would when stropping - this seems to clear the bigger particles and seemed to improve the shave, but I certainly didn't do this at the begining when I first got this stone.