Thread: JNAT & Nagura questions/identification - help!

Originally Posted by Brighty83

Do you mean mine/colour/strata?

No. I mean stones like Nakayama Maruka HATAHOSHI Tomae Kiita from reputed seller.
So it's rather about quality in general, not about specific properties.

Originally Posted by Brighty83

Having two stones from the same mine, strata and colour doesn't mean they will act the same. This is the biggest problem with Jnats, the only way to know how that stone is going to behave is to test the stone.

When you are buying stones from good sellers you can always ask them for stone with desired properties.

For example, once I had asked Jim Rion for hard Ozaki suitable for razor honing and I got exactly what I need. And the same with Maxim from Denmark...
As far as I know there are also some more good sellers with good reputation and great experience on jnats. Including Alex Gilmore ( AKA Alx here on SRP ).

As for japanese sellers the main obstacle is that most japanese people don't know English.
Fortunately you will have no such problem with Morihei　（　http://www.morihei.co.jp/english/index.html　）.