Thread: Grit estimate (just to place it in cycle)

Well its hard to translate a language that is completely based on symbolic meaning and not words as we know it in the western culture.
Just e-mail the guy and talk to him, he will answer all your questions.

Originally Posted by IanS

Yeah I babelfished it... but translators are terrible for japanese to english. It's almost total gibberish. "Sky happy moon displease honorably clown spectacular. Hard sun is lemon sparkle pear no displeasure mistaken growth."

And such.

A lot of pages have the words "sold out" amidst a ton of Box-type (some horrible computer interpretation of kanji?). I've been presuming that means the stone on that page is sold out, but it's also at the top of a lot of the browsing pages, so I can't even tell what's available. And a lot of his stones are listed as dutch auctions with some sort of deal where the price goes down every day until the end of the month, but I can't tell if the low price is where it started or the "retail price" is where it's starting. And some items it says must be bought with some kind of special colored money. Are these kinds of crazy convoluted sales practices common for japanese web-stores? Is anyone able to explain them to me?

Plan to. I finally figured it out...
being logged in and on babel makes it a bit easier too read (2x translators!)...


I was browsing his "SOLD" page I think, that's why I kept seeing sold out everywhere.

Now I'm seeing stock numbers "Several 1" or "N/A" which Im assuming are in/out of stock.

It's a shame... I had found several stones I wanted in his sold out page too. :P

Thanks for all your help.

I have an Aoto and a the #100 OHira stone you are looking at (I was told it is from the Tomae stratum). I have found the Aoto to be finer than my 1200 DMT and not as fine as the Ohira Tomae. Both are soft stones and cut faster with slurry (as expected).

I would only be guessing at grit, but I am pretty pleased with a progression from the DMT 1200 to the Aoto and on to the Ohira Tomae before hitting my finishing stone.

What's your finisher?

I have a few that I am experimenting with now. They are mostly naturals. The standard I am comparing them to is a Nakayama Mariuchi Asagi:

I have one of those Shobu stones. I have produced some pretty sharp edges with it. It is obvious that it cuts metal. It's the only one that I have had to split on me. *shrug. Being softish it drinks deep (lotta water).

It is fine grit, makes a pretty knife bevel, to me it is a "polisher"; (easily shaped for grooves or gouges if need be. see above as it wants to do it on its own) Like if you get too much patina this kinda stone will clean it up quicly and look nice, Then I sneak an easy micro-bevel on with a hard stone.

Dudley Togi has shown some of his "mame-awaseto". This type would make a good candidate for high grit sandpaper replacement doing restoration