Thread: Nakayama Maruichi

Originally Posted by singlewedge

One of those is on my list of to gets.

Where would you put this in your series of hones.

GreatWhite was kind enough to send me some 1 mic and .5 mic pasted balsas that really did the trick for me on some tough blades, but one of these would set me right.

To be honest, right now, it's at the top of my finisher's. I have Escher, Coticule, Shapton, Naniwa, etc... This hone is tops....I haven't run it through a full series of razors...Lynn would be better suited to make that judgement, but from what i heard from everyone else, it's the best...

Originally Posted by gugi

nice hone rich

yeah i think that OLD_SCHOOL being able to test them with razors and actually knowing how to hone goes a long way to ensuring we get good rocks.

and my understanding is that the same is true with so and everybody who has gotten a hone from him has been happy. buying from ebay sellers otoh is where it gets dicey.

O_S is easy to deal with, like most of our members here. I dropped So an email, Bruno tells me it'll be a while before I hear from him. Oz from Oz on the forum here is supposed to nudge him for me....

Beautiful Rich! I'm glad you're happy with it! I told you it would be more beautiful in person

Sounds like a great hone. 25x is fast! Let us know how the shave turns out

Rich, the only responsible and decent thing to do is to send me both the Naniwa 12 and the Shapton 16 as I am looking at both. While you are at it, and eshcer would be great as well. As you have the pinacle of stones with this one, the others are going to obviously go unused. I'll expect delivery promptly!

Truthfully, very nice looking stone, glad it's giving you a good edge.

Joe

Oh great Rich, I thought I had tough choices to make after my thread about Naniwa vs Shapton, then I read this! You really don't make this easy, do you?

You're killing me....I JUST ordered another coticule from Howard, and I thought that would satisfy the hone gods for a little while. But now??? I've always had the little demon in the back of my mind egging me on for a nice japanese natural.....But now? That demon just got a LOT bigger and a LOT louder! I'm finding myself justifying money and trying to rationalize it....oooohhh.......Why is this so hard???

You guys sound surprised that you are hot and heavy after another hone......... Look at the pictures from any get together.....see the big piles of hones? Guess how that happens

Sorry, just kidding around I might have one or two more than I need, too.

Originally Posted by Ryan82

Oh great Rich, I thought I had tough choices to make after my thread about Naniwa vs Shapton, then I read this! You really don't make this easy, do you?

Sorry Ryan,,,,but I have to do what I have to do...I've almost reached
"Shavana"

Great hone Zib. Use it in good health.

I also have a Nakayama Maruichi and although it is a very fine hone and it has provided me with some of the best edges I have ever experienced I want to also say that there are also other natural Japanese hones out there that do the job too.

Oohira is one. You can see them for sale at rasurpur.

Arashiyama is another. There are also the Yamashiro Meito that have the HGAL rating to make things easier to understand.

I also recently got two new Japanese naturals from a local dealer and from the results of honing 6 razors: one of the new hones - if no both - are higher grit than the Nakayama Maruichi that I have had for about 6 months (note my Nakayama was not one of O_S's hones but had the same stamps that you see on his hones.). I will have to upload some pics to show all of you, but one is a mix of kiita, akasasu (red), and nashiji and the other hone is a water colour asagi (very light blue, almost grey). The asagi is very very fine and is higher grit than the Maruichi. Both hones were comapritively cheap and have proved to be great hones for razors.

There are other Japanese naturals out there that don't cost an arm and a leg to get.

For the honing I did on those six razors, after some experimentation I used all three in order 1. maruichi, 2. mixed one, and finally 3. asagi, and have smoothness mixed with keeness that I haven't had anywhere else. I expect to add a coticle or two into the mix of things just to see what is what.

I never though I would have HAD but I guess it happens to the best of us.

Originally Posted by Lynn

That's how mine works Jimmy, but I ain't sellin' it!!



Lynn

LOL! Now I know how you get them so sharp.