Hello all ,

Have two stones back at my home in Vancouver and still fairly new to honing . Had limited success ( as in not ended up in the hospital after honing and shaving ...yet ) with the Shapton 10,000 grit , I bought last time i was here for a year ( killer deal on Rakuten free shipping and was less than $60 Cdn ) .

As I am keen to have a really good natural stone for keeping a sharp edge ( the Belgian whetstones arguably rank high ) , and since there is a knife shop in my town that has a full room of natural stones , why not .

I went to the knife shop in 2011 to ask about a sharpening stone for razors ..., and the bloke looked at me and said ( my japanese is functional ..can read and write more than i can speak fluently - arse backwards i know ) he said you cannot do that , it is for professionals only . Then I said agreed , but I want to learn and need to buy a stone to start .
He never did sell me a stone . Hoping this time to get one ha ha .

I will go their on Monday and take some photos with the kanji names and if anyone is kind enough to enlighten me on
which brands will do , I will be very grateful .

Only using my DE razors here , had to travel light . Looking forward to getting back to Van and my straight razors ..although it will be eight months since I used one . Hospital visit may ensue .

Thanks all and cheers,

Scott