Thread: Odd Hone Identification

Well done! I was in China recently and watched a monk make ink drawings. His ink was already liquefied though. Haven't seen the Japanese method. Very cool.

Originally Posted by Howard

Well done! I was in China recently and watched a monk make ink drawings. His ink was already liquefied though. Haven't seen the Japanese method. Very cool.

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Although I have never been to China, I am a trained calligrapher and here is my inkstone and ink stick. Using this method to write is very much akin to shaving with a straight razor. It gives one a sense of practicing an historical artform. We can all agree on that. http://www.drue.net/sumi-e-inkstone.htm

Any results on honing a razor with the back of a suzuri? I just discovered one that I had laying around in my closet for years.

From what I've read, they're often made of slate, and it sort of looks like slate....usually not suitable for honing.

Interestingly enough a japanese friend of mine who is also a retailer for japanese kitchenware and natural stones talked to me about the PHIG or Chinese 12k I showed him.
He didn´t know such thing exists and was interested, so I lend it to him. I also gave him all the information I had. The ebay seller I got it from two years ago
claimed the stone was mined in Guanxi. The friend of mine (a highly enthusiastic stone-addict) checked his sources and came back to me saying in Guanxi there would be no quarry capable
of producing these kinds of stones but his source immrdiately recognized it as a stone used for the preparation of ink.
I have no idea wether that is true or not, nor do I know what kind of source that was.
Looking at the second picture, hell this could be a beat up C12k with a hole in it ...