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    can anyone tell me something of those old stock stamped and boxed Narutaki Jnats
    they came in pretty thin stones , but looks very consistent nd pure .
    Someone has one and what are the opinions on those stones

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    I mean someone that has personal expeience with those boxed old new stack hones awasedo and shiageto .
    Seems that nobody haz one

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    The stone from the link above is an awasedo..
    so it must to be an old one or a new one? I can't understand, sorry..
    Could you give me an example, please?
    Actually i don't know is this stone a vintage one or not.. I can ask the person who wrote the review about that if you are interesting in.

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    there is a seller from Rusian federation that has exelent review and it has 2 Narutaki that i whant but there is ni data for those stones . The opinions are that they are with a slow cuting action ( witch isnt a ba thing on finishing stones ) and that the are smooth .
    No other thing i can find abbout them

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    RusenBG,

    You cannot buy a JNat razor hone that way. There is more difference between individual stones than coticules or Thuringians. There are about 80 different layers in the strata and even within the layers there were stones suitable for tools/knives and others, a smaller percentage, that were good for razors.

    The only way you can buy a razor hone is for a knowledgeable seller to tell you that a specific stone is good for razors. Our Alx is very knowledgeable about these stones. You could also contact Shosui Takeda, the knifemaker, who sells stones - he can be contacted on Facebook IIRC. Takeda supplied the Nakayama razor koppas to Mark at Chef's Knives to Go and I have two of them, both excellent razor hones. He sells these at 90 USD.

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    im a facebook frend of Takeda . he is ultra cool guy .
    No stones now unfortunately , out of stck

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    Quote Originally Posted by RusenBG View Post
    there is a seller from Rusian federation that has exelent review and it has 2 Narutaki that i want
    from RF? ..
    Some of my friends actually have some nice stones for razor and i believe them.. but i can't remember about narutaki among them.
    But i can remember a narutaki stone with hardness=3+( 4 - Guns.ru Talks it's not for razor, it's good for knives. So, really, it depends(hardness, color, speed) on concrete examplar.
    Narutaki - it's just the name of the quarry, like Nakayama etc.
    Try ask the seller about properties.
    +1 to Steve56.

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    upd: no, it seems that i don't know the seller.. At least - personally.
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    Hey RusenBG,

    Do you mean these stones ?

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    It's very good razor hone very hard and scratchy, you must smooth it out after lapping.

    This is a final finishing stone with a nice speed for it's grit, if you don't want to use Naguras, the stone will fit at the final stage of polishing, the grit is very fine and consistent.

    It's a new comer and I started to like it very much.

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    I think the reviews you mentioned summed up most narutaki stones. Uniform and a bit slow cutting. If I had to pick stones out of a hat and one said nakayama and one said narutaki, I'd pay more to pick one out of the nakayama hat, especially if it had to sharpen more than razors.

    Razor only, it might not matter so much if you're sharpening only your own.

    The market is flush with stones right now, so it's not easy to resell stones unless you have a market familiar with you (as in, I wouldn't overpay, or you might be stuck with a stone).

    On any stone where it's not 100% known how good it might be, I'd like to have someone tell me that a stone is a good one for razors if I wanted to sharpen razors, unless it was really cheap (and then I'd take the risk just seeing the condition of the swarf left on the surface of the stone).
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