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08-20-2013, 03:12 PM #150 year str. shaver
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Most popular stone ?
In recent times, several new stones have surfaced and as usual, many of us have jumped on the bandwagon and gave them a try. Examples are Welsh Thuringian, Chinese 2500, Zulu Grey, Gokumyo 20k to name some of them.
Just wondering which of the newly popular stones have caught your fancy. Do you have a new found favorite stone? Mine is the Gokumyo 20k. It seems to have simplified my finishing process for the good.
Did any of the newer stones ratchet up your honing significantly?JERRY
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08-20-2013, 04:07 PM #2Senior Member
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+1 on the 20K. Matter of fact, it was a post you made Jerry, that the yen was down to the dollar, that finally drove me over the edge to go for it. Glad I did. I'm still using my Escher on some of them but the Gokumyo is such a great stone IME.
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08-20-2013, 05:58 PM #3Customized
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Same here to be honest.
The Gokumyo has gotten a more or less permanent place in my finishing routines.
The Welsh trio was not quite what I had hoped for.
Good stones, but not something that will be a permanent part of my daily honing.
There are other naturals that do all they do, and they do it better. imho.
The Sigma 13K is another stone I like.
Good finisher, but the color/pattern on it does tend to cover water on it, and I find myself honing on it untill too dry for my taste.
For kitchen knives, it is superb though!
Other stones worth mentioning,to me, are the lower grit Suehiro Gokumyo Debado's. (I know, quite the mouthful
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I have those in 400-2000 and 6000 Grit.
Very good stones, with excellent feedback.
But they will not knock my Chosera's off the top spot on the podium
At least not yet!Bjoernar
Um, all of them, any of them that have been in front of me over all these years....
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08-22-2013, 09:58 PM #4Senior Member
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Shame that this is just for new hones otherwise I would have one contender too.
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08-23-2013, 03:44 PM #5Senior Member
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Aww go on, tell anyway. Originally Posted by adrspach
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08-23-2013, 04:04 PM #6At this point in time...
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Right now I am really happy with the Chosera run of 1k-5k-10k super fast, super smooth, and super consistent,
also stupid expensive 
Finally have figured out how to get a shaving edge off the 10k but honestly it is not as good as just adding a finisher after that level...
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08-23-2013, 07:43 PM #7Senior Member
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Chocera 1000 Originally Posted by AlanII
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08-23-2013, 08:19 PM #8This is not my actual head.
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I'm still using the Naniwa 12k. Anybody remember those?
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