Quote Originally Posted by LarryAndro View Post

It makes me wonder how a Chinese inkstone got into a pile of whetstones and barbers hones. Can anyone help me with that?!
Well maybe, I have a suzuri and I have honed on the bottom side a little bit just for the heck of it. There really was a Sailor Jerry who tattooed in Hawaii for many years. Not just a name on a bottle of rum. He had a suzuri that he used for generating ink for certain applications.

This stimulated me to get one and mess with it. The one that I got came from some mountain in Japan, a natural, not some cheap imitation. When I got into the straight razor thing it occurred to me that I might have something that would perform double duty.

So depending on where the stone came from, it may have been used to do some honing. Give it a try on the flat bottom side. You may have a nakayama there.