Thread: shoubudani asagi kan

Originally Posted by mainaman

JNS japanesenaturalstones.com
he posts all new stones he gets for sale there.
send him an e-mail and see what he has for you.

I got this one from him:

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I asked for a stone that is as close as possible to his hard Oozuko, and this one turned out to fit the criteria.

Dude, I had a feeling you bought that stone, lol, turns out my
feeling is correct.

How has your experience been with this stone?

Sharpman

Originally Posted by Birnando

Congrats!
Lovely set up!
In fact, I bought basically the exact set from him a couple months back.
I have worked a lot on the Shoubudani lately, and I find it to be a superb stone and fantastic finisher!

Are you bringing them to London for the meetup? I've always wanted to try out a fully jnat/slurry setup.

Originally Posted by MarkinLondon

Are you bringing them to London for the meetup? I've always wanted to try out a fully jnat/slurry setup.

Indeed I am Mark.
I look forward to hearing your thoughts on Nagura honing on a Japanese Natural.

Originally Posted by SharpMan

Dude, I had a feeling you bought that stone, lol, turns out my
feeling is correct.

How has your experience been with this stone?

Sharpman

so far the finest stone I have tried of any kind, Jnat or other natural.

A short while back I bought a Shoubudani Aisa from JimR. I bought it from him because he had tested and used this very stone. I fell in love with it after I used it. It will reflect light (mirror) at 10° and is a very hard stone. He furnished it with a Tenjou Nagura as well as a Tomonagura. This stone was sourced from Bo-ohku hones in Kyoto and its purchase is one of the smartest things I've done in the last year. I hope you enjoy your Shoubudani as much as I enjoy mine.

Originally Posted by mainaman

so far the finest stone I have tried of any kind, Jnat or other natural.

Very happy for you! Hopefully this will take away or reduce your HAD
before you go broke!

I asked Maxim for flawless(no lines,cracks etc) super fine, very hard stone, but
at the same time being not very expensive. I think he could not find me one for
a reasonable price,lol can't blame him.

offtopic:
How do you flatten your natural stones, those that are very hard? I read some
can kill a diamond plate even. I tried flattening one with sic paper, but noticed
the some of the sick grit that came loose from the paper would get stuck in the natural stone. I could see little black dots in my natural stone.

Sharpman

Originally Posted by SharpMan

Very happy for you! Hopefully this will take away or reduce your HAD
before you go broke!

I asked Maxim for flawless(no lines,cracks etc) super fine, very hard stone, but
at the same time being not very expensive. I think he could not find me one for
a reasonable price,lol can't blame him.

offtopic:
How do you flatten your natural stones, those that are very hard? I read some
can kill a diamond plate even. I tried flattening one with sic paper, but noticed
the some of the sick grit that came loose from the paper would get stuck in the natural stone. I could see little black dots in my natural stone.

Sharpman

DMT XXC, then worn off DMT 325, another fine but softer jnat that about makes it almost as smooth as it can be.

It is hard to find a really top notch stone that is perfect aesthetically for little money, they are too rare to be cheap.
A cheaper alternative would be koppa size.

Originally Posted by mainaman

DMT XXC, then worn off DMT 325, another fine but softer jnat that about makes it almost as smooth as it can be.

It is hard to find a really top notch stone that is perfect aesthetically for little money, they are too rare to be cheap.
A cheaper alternative would be koppa size.

Thanks for the reply Stefan.

Have you seen the new DMT XXC plate?

With reasonable I meant about 250-350euro, but I guess
that wouldn't even be enough.

Sharpman

Originally Posted by SharpMan

offtopic:
How do you flatten your natural stones, those that are very hard? I read some
can kill a diamond plate even. I tried flattening one with sic paper, but noticed
the some of the sick grit that came loose from the paper would get stuck in the natural stone. I could see little black dots in my natural stone.

Sharpman

I have learned to use a DMT on my Chinese 12k and then to use the Chinese on my Shoubudani while running water over both of them. It works well for me. I look for a 10° reflectivity on a dry stone. That seems to fill my needs.

Originally Posted by BanjoTom

I have learned to use a DMT on my Chinese 12k and then to use the Chinese on my Shoubudani while running water over both of them. It work well for me. I look for a 10° reflectivity on a dry stone. That seems to fill my needs.

Makes sense, but how did you flatten the shoubudani the first time?

I was thinking of using some loose powder that is not very hard(no sic,maybe
aluoxide?) so it flattens the stone, but without risk of getting stuck in the
natural stone.

Sharpman