Thread: Nakayama Asagi owners please respond

Originally Posted by gugi

Better hurry up. next week you'll probably have to left it down.

I think you meant wrong it down gugi!

.... but then if you run the razor over a clean dry stone as I just did; it does feel like glass.

Originally Posted by kevint

.... but then if you run the razor over a clean dry stone as I just did; it does feel like glass.

I was going to say, the 3 Asagis I've held now all feel like glass. They even reflect light like a mirror representing color of objects and everything when you tilt the Asagi at an angle.

Chris L

Originally Posted by Kees

I never use slurry on mine and get excellent results.

Ditto on both the method and results.

Originally Posted by Jimbo

From what I gathered from So, each stone behaves differently. My Asagi needs slurry - so I bought the 1200K Atoma diamond plate that So recommended.

Slurry from start to finish works very well on my baby, for all razors and any steel type.

James.

Why not use a small Nakayama to raise a slurry?

Originally Posted by Bruno

Mine is a Maruichi Maruka.
I think it is also an asagi stone.

Nakayama is the mine
Maruichi specifies grit / fineness
Maruka is like a stamp of quality approval, but ones without it are not necessarily worse
Asagi talks about color / type of clay matrix (I think)

Then there is also the stratum from which it was mined, but I don't know which that would be.

IIRC Maruichi Maruka is the name of the trader of the stones, like Escher is the name of the company that sold top qualityThuringians.

Originally Posted by Chris L

I was going to say, the 3 Asagis I've held now all feel like glass. They even reflect light like a mirror representing color of objects and everything when you tilt the Asagi at an angle.

Chris L

with water and esp. slurry it does not feel like glass at all. Ha, not that i have thought much about comparing the feel of other hones wet to dry.
could be universal.

I had been doing well keeping Yama-san out of mind. I'm sitting on a couple pics and descripts. of two budget busters to choose from.... you know the feeling

IIRC, when I bought the first Asagi I returned I think all told it was like $230 including shipping. I guess it depends on the budget. It DID bust my razor budget for awhile, that's true.

I must work with these Asagis more. Last night's experiment wasn't stellar. I honed an already shaving sharp (but in need of a touch up) DD Dwarf on the rectangular Asagi pictured. I used slurry raised with my 1200 DMT D8E for about 100 passes then rinsed off the stone well and honed 100 passes with plain water. Stropped and test shaved this morning. I'm a big proponent of the HHT and even the varying degrees of HHT to indicate varying degrees of sharpness. Both the HHT and the shave this AM showed the razor needed more work. I think I'm done with the slurry on this stone and this particular razor. I'm going to hone like the dickens with water only on that razor this weekend and try again. If it takes hundreds and hundreds of passes like Old School does......I'm going to sit down privately and have a talk with these two stones and see what kind of resolution we can come up with.

I will say that I can already see both stones are/would be superior natural polishing stones and my abilities or familiarity with the stones are what are lacking. The frosted look of the bevels created with slurry quite quickly turns into mirror bevels when honing with water. This also leads me to believe the DD may need a bit of touch up on a lower grit (8k maybe) prior to hitting the Asagi again.

Chris L

The obvious solution is to rent that saw again, cut each stone into 4 hones and 4 slurry stones, and sell them for $150 each. That way you can keep one of each and still make a profit!

lol

Un lol. hundreds of strokes? hmm hard to communicate with a no count. How long does it take?

On this cracker the strokes are only 4, 4.5 inch long

i should find my spyglass and see what i got rather than feeling it out.