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

I'm looking for a middle stone and was wondering if someone knowing could let me know just a general idea of about where (very generally) these stones would sit related to norton grit scale. I currently have a king 4k (norton 8k) and am hoping for something to get me from 1.2k DMT to the king, but I may also be interested in a follower for the king, so if y/n is all you can give me, it'd be appreciated, but a grit estimate would be more useful.


JAPANESE sharpening stone #100 Ohira Green kumori sword - eBay (item 200412795909 end time Dec-04-09 05:06:27 PST)

JAPANESE sharpening stone Shoubu Sougoroh kumori C100 - eBay (item 200413079413 end time Dec-04-09 18:18:27 PST)

Originally Posted by IanS

I'm looking for a middle stone and was wondering if someone knowing could let me know just a general idea of about where (very generally) these stones would sit related to norton grit scale. I currently have a king 4k (norton 8k) and am hoping for something to get me from 1.2k DMT to the king, but I may also be interested in a follower for the king, so if y/n is all you can give me, it'd be appreciated, but a grit estimate would be more useful.


JAPANESE sharpening stone #100 Ohira Green kumori sword - eBay (item 200412795909 end time Dec-04-09 05:06:27 PST)

JAPANESE sharpening stone Shoubu Sougoroh kumori C100 - eBay (item 200413079413 end time Dec-04-09 18:18:27 PST)

Aoto is in the 1-3k range. The Ohira stones as far as I understand are in the 5k+ range, and the best ones can get you all the way up in the 30k+ range.

Yeah, I'm considering an Aoto, but I'm worried it may be softer than I'd like, so if either of these would fit in the 3-6k range, I'd prefer to go with one of them. The thing is the only info I can find on "Kumori" is that it's the "mist and haze" level of polish... which means nothing to me.

Originally Posted by IanS

Yeah, I'm considering an Aoto, but I'm worried it may be softer than I'd like, so if either of these would fit in the 3-6k range, I'd prefer to go with one of them. The thing is the only info I can find on "Kumori" is that it's the "mist and haze" level of polish... which means nothing to me.

You have a choice of some synthetics too:
3k superstone,
3k Chosera (I have this one and its great)

I talked to the 330mate guy and he said that hard Iyo stone will work
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talk to him and see what he says. The Iyo stones have the grit written in the description.

They're all 1200 right, and that's JIS so it's closer to 3-4k using nortons standard, eh?

Originally Posted by IanS

They're all 1200 right, and that's JIS so it's closer to 3-4k using nortons standard, eh?

no they are not all 1200, in the description where he stats the HGS you will see number that corresponds to the grit.
I do not know what 1200 designates.

Oh awesome, thanks a bunch.

I found some stones I'm interested in. Does he have an english checkout page or should I email him?

Wow, I registered because the site promised english translation if you did. I logged in and now it's trying to blind me. The only thing it translated is the titles and theres about 5 different texts, adds, banners, and images all stacked on top of one another, It's like someone ate a sears catalog and puked it all over the my monitor. Is there a way to fix this?

Originally Posted by IanS

Wow, I registered because the site promised english translation if you did. I logged in and now it's trying to blind me. The only thing it translated is the titles and theres about 5 different texts, adds, banners, and images all stacked on top of one another, It's like someone ate a sears catalog and puked it all over the my monitor. Is there a way to fix this?

if you install google tool bar it has a translator that kind of give you an idea what is written.
E-mail the guy and send him a link to the stone you are interested in.

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?