Thread: Nakayama Honayama Asagi from aframestokyo

hey,

today i received my stone from takeshi of aframestokyo.



this is how it looks. the yellow thing gone a bit away while honing with slurry.
what is this yellow things on the surface? i lapped the stone but it still was there. on the picture it looks more extrem than in real.
dont know what it is. i soon will shave with the razor i honed only with this stone and my naguras (botan,mejiro,koma, nagura cutted out of a maruka nakayama). the edge seems pretty good and the hht is no problem at all. dont know if its finer than my ohzuku but its much faster even without slurry.

Its just a feature of the stone.

wow this was fast!
i forgot to write that the feeling while honing is really nice and gives a nice feedback.

The yellow is actually referred to as "orange" (yake) & makes the stone cut fast when blended with the rest of the stone in the slurry. To much may be a bad thing as it can be "scratchy" & none at all makes the stone look a bit plain
Looks like a good stone.