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07-15-2011, 12:32 AM #31
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Thanked: 35Well I have the naniwa 8k stone and that one is too soft for me. My
plane blade gouges in the stone(freehand honing). That's why I asked
about the hardness of your 10k in comparison to the other stones and
especially to the asagi.
I also have an interest in buying the people's hone, since it is cheap and
many feel it is very fine, hard, good quality. So the hardness of that stone
compared to the shoubu was interesting for me as well.
Another thing I found interesting was that I read in another topic that the
people's hone(one particular) was about Lv3 which I found a bit weird since
many people say it is so hard to lap and also soaking won't help as the water
cannot penetrate it.
Maybe you can check hardness by rubbing the natural stones together and
see what colour slurry is produced. The softer stone(AFAIK) will create the
slurry more, whereas the harder stone will produce less slurry.
Just found this interesting information on hardness:
ROCK HARDNESS CLASSIFICATION - MOHS SCALE
Sharpman