Sure looks my Narutaki. Came from Alex G. Pretty colors indeed. It's my go-to stone for my premium kitchen knives. Still working on figuring it out for razors. Alex said it worked for him, but it's eluding me as a razor finisher right now.
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Sure looks my Narutaki. Came from Alex G. Pretty colors indeed. It's my go-to stone for my premium kitchen knives. Still working on figuring it out for razors. Alex said it worked for him, but it's eluding me as a razor finisher right now.
Nice stone. What kind of kitchen knives do you use?
I have a cute little laser-sharp funayuki that I bought from Murray Carter about twenty years ago, and a master smith gyuto that I got from him last year. A true work of art. I also have two carbon steel Japanese knives that I picked up in Little Tokyo in LA forever ago. Stained, used, but never abused for many years, still excellent (bargain priced) knives.
Here's Murray's gyuto. That's a twenty inch cutting board for scale's sake. Good size knife that definitely prefers a pinch grip for control during fine work.
Special stones are made of these.Picture please. We are on the Show us your Jnat thread
It's also posted in this thread somewhere, way back. I've had it for a decade now.
Yes that is a beautiful Narutaki stone. I really like that knife too. Narutaki to me has some of the most beautiful stones and they can be great performs too. The problem you maybe having is the hardness of the stone. In being a knife stone it maybe a bit more on the softer side. I have one I would consider a knife/razor stone. It is my softest, but still like a lv4 no self slurry with a razor and not much with knife pressure. It is a Narutaki iromono I believe, but that is just a guess based on the color and pattern. Was just sold as a Sho Honyama as it was purchased in Japan and used as a razor stone, but then purchased by the buyers friend as a knife stone. I then got it from that friend. It requires a super light touch and water only to finish. When I say light touch I mean like the blade is floating in water on the stone. It will yield an edge way sharper than a Coticule, but with the same smooth feel as a coticule edge. My only problem is I like barber hand held stones and this one is 1.3kg and I have other bench size knife stones. So this one doesn't get a whole lot of use.
That's beautiful. I love karasu. Actually one will be waiting for me at home tonight after work
I won't Basil
Here it is. Prelim lapping. It's really hard. Beautiful kawa on the back.
Next step is cashew and sone more lapping tomorrow after work.
Next step is cashew and sone more lapping tomorrow after work.
A friend sent it to me I can't complain one bit.
I can't complain one bit.
Damn that is a beautiful stone, Alex.
Thank's guys. Yeah I am really excited about this one.
That is one beautiful karasu!
By the way, how much do you thin your cashew before applying it?
By the way, how much do you thin your cashew before applying it?
Definitely the Narutaki is softer. Easy to bring up a slurry with mejiro, koma, or the tomo that Alex included.
I'll work on that super light touch and clear water you mentioned. Though if it only ever gets my kitchen knives just how I like them, I'm perfectly fine with that, as I get to play with others (karasu, Shobu Kiita, and Naka mizu) for razors. It's all great.
Are you just sealing the sides on that Karasu? I don’t know if I could cover up that pretty kawa at all.
Tom I think I will leave the kawa be on this one. I have a mizu that has a nice thick kawa, covered it and honestly I kind of regret it.
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