Thread: Small stones

Here are some interesting small hones, the top row are about 100mm/4" long. Left to right, top row: A pretty Hatanaka iro, colored with deep kiita, green, blue, and rose, very hard and fine, and very, very fast, maybe the fastest stone I have. Half length strokes are fine if the stone cuts twice as fast! Next, a green/mizu asagi, also hard, fine, and fast, but not quite as fast as the Hatanaka. The smallest is a Narutaki iro with a piece of King 1k glued to the back. Good traveler stone. Far right, a small but richly colored kiita, also a good traveler. Below is a piece of old style kiita, more of a light chocolate than yellow. The back side, and most of the hone is almost an identical color to a yellow-green Thuringian. One reason you'd use such a stone is that the quality is equal to the very best stones I have, the Hatahoshi and Hatanaka bench stones costing ten or more times as much.

Cheers, Steve