Thread: Show your big (and small) naturals!

I did a search to see if there was a specific show your natural stones thread and didn't find anything, so here we go: Show your natural stones collection! Here are mine, I have a lot of "found" natural stones also but only have a few in these pics. These are otherwise all "established" natural stones from the sellers in the business of honing stones.

First up, Arks and Washitas:



Next, slates and coticules:



Sandstones:



JNats:

My little BBW/Coticle 2.54 x 10 cm

at one point or another I used to have all those in my collection





A few are not naturals here

10.5" Escher



Got two crappy Coticules somewhere and a small Thuri as well.


This one is the wall of a J-nat seller in Japan, all stones are Nakayamas, that is what I call a collection!

Were the ones on the wall not usable?

Originally Posted by rolodave

Were the ones on the wall not usable?

That would be my guess, I did not take the picture.

Every stone is usable ,just lapp it flat. It is so good that this wall is in Japan if it was somwhere near me i could not sleep till i strip every stone from it
Sorry im a plummer and working every day with hammer and chissel.
This small Yellou - Green Thury is amazyng stone i bett .5x1 i think .Jnats areCrazyyyy beautys also ,how could you sell them

Originally Posted by RusenBG

Every stone is usable ,just lapp it flat.

Not if it has toxic inclusions, then it is junk.

oh you mean bad in that sense ,with inc .I understand why they are on the wall.

Originally Posted by mainaman

Not if it has toxic inclusions, then it is junk.

Not really. Japanese sword polishers buy stones with toxic inclusions frequently to save money. They go through expensive stones so fast that for a new togishi it is probably the only real option.

The common practice is to use a nail or hard piece of steel to dig out the toxic areas below the honing plane. You can get an uchigumori that would normally be 600$+ for 100-200$ if you take the time to remove the toxic areas.

I have a new phone/camera so I will post my collection soon. It is getting quite large even with the Jnats I had to sell. I figure by the time I'm 30 the pile will be insane.(24 now, been seriously collecting natural hones for a year or so)