Thread: First Japanese Stone

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..

Originally Posted by JOB15

Hi, i received my first Japanese natural stone yesterday, a Shoboudani Mizu Asagi L5+.
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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.

Just put it on glue onto wooden plank.

Cant answer this, but would shy away from lapping precious material.
Is your stone laquored, if its the harder variety it probably won't need it?

Joe

if you try to lap this hard stone you will spend hours till it is flat enough to stay still while in the holder. Get some nice Cedar make a base and glue the stone with gorilla glue to it.

Originally Posted by Nikolay

Just put it on glue onto wooden plank.

like this:

Don’t lap the bottom, glue it to some wood as suggested would be the best bet. It doesn’t have to be fancy as long as it works.

Can you post some pics so we can see how far out it is? Pics of the bottom and side against something straight.

Nice stone, congrats! I also think that u should to place it on a nice wooden base...
GL

Usually in this case, I use a piece of cardbox folded like when you have to adjust the feet of a shaking table.

The bottom was about a centimeter off on one end.
I placed the stone upside down and built a wooden box around it.
Rising to 1mm above the highest point.
I've then used morter to level it off.
I'm gonna sand it down a bit,nice n flat. Then seal it with PVA.
Today i bought some Redwood and i will chisel it into shape and cut out a seat for the stone.
I'm gonna use some linseed oil on the wood and stick the stone into place.
Also fix some thin rubber feet to it.
Thats the plan anyway..Lets see what happens...I'm no craftsman, im just making this up as i go along

Pretty cool idea, I hope it works out well.