Thread: Jnat I have on the way

Of course, USPS tried to deliver while I was out yesterday, Ill get it Monday morning.

Jim

Which Vendor did you order the stones from?

Carpenters' tools shop "Mandaraya" Masanori Teshiba

Jim

Well I picked them up while on lunch. Very impressed. Seems to be very well lapped. a very hard and fine feeling stone. The test of course will be honing on it. Very well packed. I'm bummed I didn't have it Sunday when I could have had some unhurried alone time with it. Anyone know a stateside source for cashew lacquer?

Jim

So here they are with the rest of the family. I have only used the botan so far. Seems to be slightly faster than my 12micron film, my coticule is a little faster. Not a bevel setter but it leaves a nice frosty bevel that shaves arm hair without any effort. So far I like it. Got interrupted before I could move on to the other nagura. While it is a very similar color to the smaller jnat it is much harder. My coticule is faster, but so much smaller there really is no contest. I am looking forward to finishing on this stone.

Jim

Is the streaked stone an iyoto?

the one horizontal near the top is a hard arkansas. top left to right, 1st a leather strop thuringian combo, the hard arkansas, then bbw, middle small coticule, bottom left to right, 1200 diamond plate, CHUG, 330mate jnat, my new Aiwadani Janat, last Binsui.

Jim

That's a pretty Ark. Since you showed a pile of stones, here is what's on my workbench at the moment, lol:

Well its been busy, and I haven't had much time to learn the stones as much as I wanted. So far I am still impressed. The botan is quite fast with a milky slurry. Leaves a frosty finish that easily shaves arm hair, the tenjou not my fave so far. It seems to be dropping sand. Ill lap it see if I can get past it. Mejiro nicer. Smooth wipes out the botan marks fast. As I work the slurry it starts to go from white to tan. Then grey. I'm going to jump to the conclusion that the tan is from the main stone. My best results so far have been light passes on light slurry from the main stone raised with a well broken in 600dmt, or a slurry from my thuringian on the main stone. I love the thuringian edge, but being somewhat ham handed a 3/4 in stone is difficult for me. I work the slurrys adding water till finishing on clear water and passes as light as I can manage. Still not as sharp as 1um film, but smooth. Not yet as smooth as a coticule edge, but sharper. This is just as of now. I need more practice.

Jim

As I am learning this stone it seems to autoslurry some. Is this usual? It does not if I am very light with my touch. It may be that my idea of light is somewhat off.

On another note I got a USB microscope off an auction site. The software supplied crashed my computer. Can anyone recommend software to use a USB microscope that wont result in compu-apocolypse.

Jim