Hi, i received my first Japanese natural stone yesterday, a Shoboudani Mizu Asagi L5+.
The stone is really some thing special, super smooth and i love using it.
Today i took delivery of my adjustable stone holder. Placing the stone onto the holder and securing it, i noticed the stone does not sit flat.
The under side of the stone has maybe a centimeter missing from one of the corner sections.
Generally the underside is all over the place.
I need to get the bottom flat.
The easy answer is to hold the stone in my hand whilst honing so i can just tilt it a bit.
But i dont like holding my hones and its quite heavy.
I was thinking either some kinda extreme lapping on the bottom or what makes more sense is to build a falce underside, squaring off the the stone.
Maybe if i mounted it onto a piece of wood...
Any ideas as to what i could build up the underside with or just any ideas would be nice.
Thanks everyone..