Thread: Help choosing finishing stone

Originally Posted by RusenBG

If i could get only one finisher , i would go with the thuringian hone froom here

Thuringian Waterhones

The seller have perfect reputation and is one of the most knowledgeable members , abbout thuringian watterhones .
Prises are very affordable for the quality =
The other option is a Jnat koopa , assagi or kiita .
The third option is a good old fashioned barber hone - cheap and efficient .
There are a lot avaible options

Great folks to deal with.

One of their Thuris is next on my HAD list.

Good luck with that, Marshal. I went to the site to check on their prices, and after clicking on at least a dozen offerings that were "not available," I gave up. They should add an "available" filter if some are actually indeed for sale.

Originally Posted by Speedster

Good luck with that, Marshal. I went to the site to check on their prices, and after clicking on at least a dozen offerings that were "not available," I gave up. They should add an "available" filter if some are actually indeed for sale.

I did the same thing. Took me a couple minutes to figure out their "in stock" stones will have a price listed below the picture.

Jer

Yeah, they Kinda do the same thing JNS does. If the stone is available you'll see a price below. Once it sells, they leave the picture up but remove the price below the rock.

Hey Marshal,
Have you used a Shapton Ceramic Kuromaku 12k? If so, what are your thoughts on it vs the Nani 12k?

I see its about $20 less. I'm trying to track all these "finisher" threads as research.
I need more time on my Norton 4k/8k to learn the skill, and it gives me time to save up (trying to curb in my disorders).

Thanks for your thoughts,

Jer

Yeah, I've got a Kuromaku 12K. It creates a really keen edge that borders on too sharp. But that isn't hard to do with me, skin's fairly sensitive. On the bright side, most everyone seems to have Chrome Oxide on a strop somewhere and that can be used to tame the harshness.

I'm sure like every other synthetic stone, if you simply shave with it a time or two it wears in and becomes much more comfortable as well. But I've only been using one razor as a test bed for the 12K, and it's been followed up with CrOx twice and finished on .25 micron CBN so what I'm using now isn't a Kuromaku 12K edge anymore. And I only shaved from it once to see what it felt like, I didn't really give it a chance to wear in before going after it with pastes.

I'm still in the learning phase with the hone, but if you PM Onimaru I'm sure he can tell you more about it than I can.

Edit: I do like the stone though. It gets the job done, and it's quick about it.