Quote Originally Posted by rideon66 View Post
Where would you get a stone at half that price? A tomo can cost half that. Now this stone has several issues of why I would not buy, but the stamp is more advertising and true stone quality won't be known without trial. Even at the price it is if the sharpening quality is there and this was cut to say 100g tomos at .35 a gram one could more than double their money.

I wonder if the wholesaler just has an old stock and a catalog of what is there and stamps stones based on that. Otherwise why wouldn't every stone be stamped for maximum profit.
Let me rephrase: I bought better looking stones for half that price, which performed a task very well. Some finished a razor, some finished a knife. NB: I am one of those who will often take a chance, take the stone first and then find it purpose.. I feel this is the right point to say this.

As for cutting into that stone, I would never do it - Too many lines in it and if you rubbed that on your base stone, it would scratch it very easily. To get rid of the lines in the hypothetical nagura, you would end up wasting at least half of the stone, and end up with very small nagura. Not that they wouldn't work, but they certainly wouldn't be worth a lot.