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06-04-2008, 08:17 AM #15
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Thanked: 22Thats correct, the Kanji really only tells you which mine it came from. The only way to tell if its quality or not is to actually use it. Same with testing grit and hardness.
As I mentioned in my information thread I have found stones, that either don't have the "Maruka" stamp (which increases the value a lot) or the "Nihon Kamisori" stamp, yet they perform equally to the ones that do have the extra stamps