Thread: 1st Jnats - what a win

oh yeh this is a gloting post
as Im rather excited here, a

I just won my 1st 2 Jnats - together in a raffle
1st is a Uchigomoru Suita - 145x60x30mm
2nd is a Nakayama Asagi - 165x75x25mm



the best thing is they cost me $10USD including shipping ahahahahhahahahahhahaaa

Congrats, I am green with envy. These are great.

There is a jnat raffle. Where???

Impressive! I better see a lot of SOTD's from you!

Happy honing?

Grats.
Uchigumori is not normally useful for razors but you can update us when you try it.

Originally Posted by onimaru55

Grats.
Uchigumori is not normally useful for razors but you can update us when you try it.

Lies.

Uchigumori and suita are PRIME middle stones, they cut very well especially the softer and waxy karasu ones. A couple circle strokes and 1k scratches go poof.

Originally Posted by DireStraights

Lies.

Uchigumori and suita are PRIME middle stones, they cut very well especially the softer and waxy karasu ones. A couple circle strokes and 1k scratches go poof.

There is no need for such tone, read the quoted text again, the statement was not absolute. There are lots of variations of J-Nats as we all know.

Originally Posted by DireStraights

Lies.

Uchigumori and suita are PRIME middle stones, they cut very well especially the softer and waxy karasu ones. A couple circle strokes and 1k scratches go poof.

Uchigumori is a suita layer. And indeed, suita stones are/were priced for their speed as they were the fastest of any other layer, but not for their finishing qualities. Still, some hard ones, and especially from the eastern mines like Okudo-the most famous, or nakayama/shobu can be excellent finishers too, along with their top notch speed (don't try it on ultra high carbon, high alloys or generally vanadium containing ones, you'll be disappointed; nature has pretty much no stones for these steels when properly hardened).
Other famous suita are the shinden, although slower than the Okudo still the good ones are excellent suita stones, and, Ohira, which aren't as good as the above but people like them I guess. I have also seen some decent suita stones from the famous owner Mitsuhide's mine.
The Uchigumori layer is a paradox in any case, and I'm not sure if it's a unique layer on the Ohira mine or other ones have/had it too. There are people who even get angry if you ask them if the stone existed in other mines, and others who say that this shallow layer did exist in other mines as well. In any case, when I finish the sword, shashikomi within the next 3 months, I'll upload photos of how it looks if some uchigumori thread is active.

Originally Posted by DireStraights

Lies.

Uchigumori and suita are PRIME middle stones, they cut very well especially the softer and waxy karasu ones. A couple circle strokes and 1k scratches go poof.

Nope. The lies aren't coming from me & it's rude of you to suggest it.

Uchigumori was always used for polishing swords & rarely offered by any established & reputable sellers as a razor stone.

Not to say it's not possible for such a stone to exist. You might even find a perfect Baji-yama stone that will work on razors but to suggest uchigumori as a "PRIME" razor stone is ludicrous & shows your inexperience..

Originally Posted by Rami

Congrats, I am green with envy. These are great.

There is a jnat raffle. Where???

Facebook - Shave gear raffles

I think it's used more for sword polishing? Could be wrong as I get them all confused.