Thread: New to me, Vintage Nakayama

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

I don't know if it is true but I heard that if you point the end of the hone to the east and bow before and after you start honing the razor will be sharper and smoother.

Optimal when the wind is blowing from the North west............

It is amazing what the different natural stones will do and how much fun you can have with them. I have an Ohzuku and Asagi and Kiita and Escher and Charnley and....... and........and they is all quite edge enhancing don't cha know........

Y'all have fun,

Lynn

Hey Glen,

I can't believe you missed to put the most important number.
The Grit!!!!!

Come on, what grit it is and in which system? We all know without grit it's useless...

Originally Posted by gugi

Hey Glen,

I can't believe you missed to put the most important number.
The Grit!!!!!

Come on, what grit it is and in which system? We all know without grit it's useless...

Grit = Smooooooth hehehe That is my own rating system, as Max calls it the G-Bro scale....

Ya puts your left stroke in...Ya puts your right stroke in.......Ya shakes up all the stokes and ya does the G-Bro hokey pokey..........yowza!!!!

Grit is meaningless with Zen Honing............you just gots ta feel da yuv!!!!

Originally Posted by Lynn

Ya puts your left stroke in...Ya puts your right stroke in.......Ya shakes up all the stokes and ya does the G-Bro hokey pokey..........yowza!!!!

Grit is meaningless with Zen Honing............you just gots ta feel da yuv!!!!

You forgot the "Clap three times" in there Lynn Mon !!!!!


We have officially lost it !!!! if we ever had it lol

hey glen - actually my japanese finisher is very similar, also a Nakayama Tomae, though Renge instead of Nashiji (meaning the little dots/patterning is of a different material, I believe) - and I love it. amzing combination of sharpness and smoothness. but I just got this charnley forest hone and have been experimenting, and it seems that it gives edges that are decisively less sharp, but notably more comfortable and smoother - makes me wonder if the super-fine japanese finishers might make things a bit TOO fine....but these are early days yet. (it is also perhaps worth noting that all these charnley edges I've been trying are refinished nakayama edges). one friend of mine who raves about his hard translucent arkansas (which is geologically similar to a Charnley, also novaculite) talks about the "intelligence" of the edges it produces - that it gives you warning of what it's doing, talks to you more/better.

Anyways. Just musing. Cool you jumped on board, glen. and man - that king pelican is sweet. i just love those vintage japs, but they are *impossible* to find, no?

Originally Posted by gssixgun

We have officially lost it !!!! if we ever had it lol

Well I've seen it all now. G-Man goes J-Nat.

Congrats mate & welcome to the insanity

WOW! I have to look away! Very nice.


R

Pretty stone, Glen, and you got an Escher too!!! Congrats, you are da man.
BTW, how did the King Pelican like taking an edge on a stone from its homeland?