A kan nested in it's wooden base, dai. Nice transition from yellow to grey. Quick test on a finished razor with a tomo worked well. More testing to come but at least I can tell besides the looks it's a perfect finisher.
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Here’s a piece of raw ore. It has plenty of black, umber, red and pink kawa, along with harmless namazu on a mostly green surface with blue and red accents. A large spot of black kawa did sparkle in the sunlight. It feels like silk under a knife and kanna, with a hardness of about 4 - 4.5 I’d say. Not scratchy in the least bit.
Ozuku Rock landed ( my first rock)
Level 5+
Preparing for surgery (flattening and waterproofing )
She is hard and baby smooth across surface, so smooth thought about using as is but preparing for surgery on her fir first use
Bigger than what I thought it would be and heavy piece of stone
Oh rock is laying on my niawai 8k Snow White in cardboard box [emoji403]
Cheers
Let the games begin [emoji3]
Testing one of two new arrivals from the other day. Took over two months to ship with sea mail, but seems worth it. The first natural chunk is a nice hard LV5+ fast,fine Okudo with kawa on all sides.
First shave after flattening and first try playing on stone
Started from 12k edge
Slurry creamy grainy goodness, slowly diluted with water until final water only
( this feels amazing not like synthetics)
Shave was smoother little sharper than 12k edge on first attempts on stone
Stone also seems to polish blade extremely well
TI razor loves playing on the slurry on stone
Still getting to know stone and lots of realtstste to work on
Stone surface smooth/hard
Used stone with Niagara came with stone, easy to raise slurry, but feel most slurry from Niagara but could be mistaken as Niagara sane as stone I think
Not bad edge for first use and 10-15 minutes of new stone
No irritation smoother/ sharper
Now researching asano Niagara I have and proper way to use them with stone
( helpful info needed)
Thoughts need more time using stone and need to strop more as I only did 25 on leather after stone, I think needed more stropping but good edge for first newbi attempt
Only been straight shaving since Christmas and love it, including refreshing my razor on a Jnat was soothing playing in the slurry
See what you guys have done [emoji3]
Gonna see how long this edge last me
Cheers
Started from 12k edge
Slurry creamy grainy goodness, slowly diluted with water until final water only
( this feels amazing not like synthetics)
Shave was smoother little sharper than 12k edge on first attempts on stone
Stone also seems to polish blade extremely well
TI razor loves playing on the slurry on stone
Still getting to know stone and lots of realtstste to work on
Stone surface smooth/hard
Used stone with Niagara came with stone, easy to raise slurry, but feel most slurry from Niagara but could be mistaken as Niagara sane as stone I think
Not bad edge for first use and 10-15 minutes of new stone
No irritation smoother/ sharper
Now researching asano Niagara I have and proper way to use them with stone
( helpful info needed)
Thoughts need more time using stone and need to strop more as I only did 25 on leather after stone, I think needed more stropping but good edge for first newbi attempt
Only been straight shaving since Christmas and love it, including refreshing my razor on a Jnat was soothing playing in the slurry
See what you guys have done [emoji3]
Gonna see how long this edge last me
Cheers
Here is my most marvelous stone!
The pictures show it slightly wet
And my second double sided marvelous stone, my huge ogura !
Very wet this one, sorry I don't have dry pics now
An extra thick barber hone that is a stellar performer. Maruka stamp and a serial number carved into the bottom.
The other one.
Sun finally came out.
Sun finally came out.
Does it annoy anyone else that Jnats are delivered in odd shapes and sizes? Most other stones are cut into nice rectangles with flat bottoms. Why is it that Jnats are so often left unfinished?
No I personally like it. A bit of uniqueness and individuality. Not just the same thing someone else has.
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Here is my photo from a couple of years ago.
Alx
Alx
Regarding jnats I am a fortunate man! Owning such a wonderful specimen of nature's work in my living room is a gift. But this stone is so fast that all my blade are now over-honed! I don't have enough strength of will to stop myself honing right in time.
And besides its beauty, it is also a kind of strange stone. Perhaps a little bit suita? and kiita in the same time?
And besides its beauty, it is also a kind of strange stone. Perhaps a little bit suita? and kiita in the same time?
Don’t forget Iromono
Overall unassuming green stone with cloudy pattern. Very hard and loaded with abrasive. Took the 1k chosera striae out with one round of atoma 1200 slurry on my tester Japanese razor and then on this MK33. Followed by tomo slurry for a perfect edge/shave. Didn't expect that.
Not a great pic but here’s one I just got in. It’s a nice clean stone with a pressure fitted dai. Does anyone know what the Hatahoshi stamp means?
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