Thread: Suehiro’s “DUAL STONE”

The interesting thing about Suehiro’s Dual Stone series is, you can use it with either water or oil. More on that later. The claim is though, the stones are harder, more dense and cut beyond thier grit rating, particularly when using oil. I had to find out for myself.


https://www.suehiro-toishi.com/en/category/dualstone2/

Thier ~3” x 8” stones range from 600 grit, to 8,000 grit. Would this be a set of stones worthy of us straight razor honing nuts? One that we might recommend to noobs over the synthetic gold standard we’ve come to accept as the Nani?

Of course we all know that other Suehiro series have insanely high grit finishing stones to finish the set when that time comes, but there are two things that stand out to me that might be of concern.




The first is, there is a weird gap in grits (in my mind). 8,000 - 6,000 -?- 1,500 - 1,000 - 600. I don’t know, but jumping from 1.5K to 6K seems a like a little bit of a hole. But then, it’s only 4.5K. Many of us jump from 3 or 4K to 8. So maybe in reality, it’s not that big of a deal.

What might be a bigger deal is that the average 8x3 DualStone costs $150 USD. Like I said, I had to see for myself, but I really don’t want to be replacing my Nani’s on a “I wonder moment.” So I got thier compact size. A little 6” x 2”, 800 / 6K grit combo stone, with a 500 grit diamond plate, and a base, all for the price of one of the 8” stones.

How would I like it?