I had been looking at that one for a while
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Please let us know how it performs. Thanks!
I see you have gotten hooked on the Suita. You using mostly for knives or are you doing razors too? What hardness are your suita? Love suita for both knives and razors. They add something to a razors edge when put in the mix.
Hooked is a good word. They're such great stones. Mostly knives but I really like the edges I get from my Okudo. I haven't tried a razor off of this one yet. The Ohira I just posted isn't super hard, it slurries a bit under knife pressure but I wouldn't call it a muddy stone by any means. The Okudo is very hard. Even when you lean on a knife it won't kick up any slurry. I love how it cuts on slurry and polishes on water. They are very versatile stones
Beautiful stone David. Those Ohira renge suitas look so pretty.
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Send me that Okudo, sounds like my kind of stone. Put it in a box instead of a paper envelope. I’ll even pay for the box! ROFL.
Barber sized tomae asagi, pretty damn hard.
My one JNAT looks remarkably like the stone @MO1 posted just above. Same reverse coloration as well.
I bought it about 10 years ago and was told it was a Nakayama Asagi. My stone is really hard as well and finishes beautifully. I've never felt the need for another.
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Trying this one out from Alex, deep strata hoard kiita koppa.
Nice one, Steve
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Thank you David!
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And I forgot to post this one. I tried it out on the trip to Sonoma to visit Alex, and had him send it out a few days ago. I’ve named it ‘big ugly’ (I have a ’little ugly’ too) but there’s nothing ugly about the razor edges that it makes, it’s like shaving with your index finger. It’s a deep layer Nakayama from the yellow skin, hard but still slurries reasonably easily.
That's a mans stone right there.
Just puzzled here, I know the lines/inclusions across a Jnat don't worry the honing process but what caused those scratches and do they have any influence on the honing process?
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That’s actually a gouge, not a line. the stone is pure.
I’m sure that Alex, and me, didn’t want to lap it out because it would remove an immense amount of material from the rest of the stone.
The stone is huge so I just avoid it, and raise my slurry in that area. A razor doesn’t catch on it anyway, but low areas/scratches/etc scrape off your slurry so they’re best to be avoided.
Another big Suita
Dang David. Going all in on the Suita. Good choice. Very versatile and just plain fun. Gorgeous stones. That last one looks hard. You know there is a suita thread too.
Monstrous stones!
What ya got there...some mix colors. Like it! Greg B.
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