Thread: Shoobie Doobie Asagi

I think there is a confusion of how hard a Japanese natural stone is everybody has.
Can you please post how the hardness is compared to the stones you have already?

A example will be you lap the Japanese natural stone against Esher or Thurigan or a 6000+ synthetic stone and see which stone makes the slurry.

Now about haze and mirror of the steel.

Japanese naturals make haze to steel if the Japanese is soft and steel is soft.
The matrix will be like this below:

Soft Medium Hard
Soft Haze Cloudy Mirror Mirror
Medium Cloudy Mirror Mirror Mirror
Hard Mirror Mirror Mirror

(Sorry I do not know how to copy xls)

Originally Posted by mainaman

Those are real bear to lap, mine is still with 2 low corners, and I just spent 40 minutes with DMT XXC on another Shobudani and gave up , it still has all corners low.

Sham, the source of your stones is definitely different. I too agree those stones are not hard to use even with different sluries.

this is interesting stones which i have are a lot softer .I even didn't spend 5 minutes to lap?

Originally Posted by DrNaka

I think the picture is made with a wet stone.
And I think this stone look a bit soft.

Can you please make a dry stone picture?

The stone looked soft? let me tell you bud,no disrespect,but if your eyes are that good shouldn't you be fighting crime somewhere? How does a stone LOOK soft?

Originally Posted by hi_bud_gl

this is interesting stones which i have are a lot softer .I even didn't spend 5 minutes to lap?

yes yours are softer.

Originally Posted by Grizzley1

The stone looked soft? let me tell you bud,no disrespect,but if your eyes are that good shouldn't you be fighting crime somewhere? How does a stone LOOK soft?

I don't think his eyes are that good. Its just that pinkish hued Jnats are generally softer than most unless he really is from Krypton

Originally Posted by Grizzley1

The stone looked soft? let me tell you bud,no disrespect,but if your eyes are that good shouldn't you be fighting crime somewhere? How does a stone LOOK soft?

When you handle enough stones you kind of learn what to look for for clues.

Originally Posted by Grizzley1

The stone looked soft? let me tell you bud,no disrespect,but if your eyes are that good shouldn't you be fighting crime somewhere? How does a stone LOOK soft?

I wrote "bit soft".
I think to write "bit softer" was better English but from content you can know that we are discussing about relative softness or hardness of Jnats.

Originally Posted by onimaru55

I don't think his eyes are that good. Its just that pinkish hued Jnats are generally softer than most unless he really is from Krypton

Thanks Oz, I think your your the only one who got it. Of course you can tell from experance which are softer to a degree,but it was such a great setup line I had to send a joke and Oz got it-thanks
Griz

Originally Posted by Grizzley1

Thanks Oz, I think your your the only one who got it. Of course you can tell from experance which are softer to a degree,but it was such a great setup line I had to send a joke and Oz got it-thanks
Griz

I do not think that it is a polite thing to send a joke to someone whose English is not his mother tongue.
I do not care so much about it but it's better not to do in many cases.

Naka san, we have fun at each other's expense sometimes but no offence is meant & certainly no one is making fun of you're English which is quite good. I'm sure Grizzley1 simply could not understand how you can tell a stones hardness from a picture. Apologies nonetheless.