Thread: Nakayama Maruichi Honyama Asagi

I recently bought this hone from Takeshi's site on a gamble.

I usually buy stones from So or Maxim because they know razors and how a razor Jnat stone should act. I decided to crap shoot on this one because of the stamps and what the heck, right? If you remember old_school's now down site, which you can still view here btw: Hone #5, you will see stones with the same stamps.

One of the stamps is the Kamisori stamp for razors.

I lapped the stone flat and then used 1000grit sandpaper to polish the surface as well as nagura stones to polish more. The stone is very hard and slow, I actually tried to make slurry on it using my extremely hard (lv5 according to Maxim) Oozuku Agasi stone. It took forever to build slurry.I tried to use the edge of the Oozuku nagura to make things faster and it then chipped pieces off the Oozuku Nagura without making much slurry (I got a very little bit).




I shaved off three razors this week using the stone as a final polish stone using water, after a 10Kish coticule. I normally use my YG escher for a final stone but this stone may be taking over that spot. I had the closest smoothest shaves this week from this stone, 2 passes, I normally do three. No need for a ATG pass either, XTG slicing was all it took.

Nice looking Nakayama you got there,
may I ask where you got it from and how it performs compared to your lv5 Ohzuku

Originally Posted by Lesslemming

Nice looking Nakayama you got there,
may I ask where you got it from and how it performs compared to your lv5 Ohzuku

I got it from Takeshi's site Aframestokyo.com. , not all the hones there are good though, some are prepolishers more than finishers. So far I don't want to compare this to my Ozuku because the nakayama is new to me and I may be biased based on that. SO far the shaves off this stone are amazing.

you cant realy compare these stones unfortionetly next one may be different. Even in Ozukus lv 5 they are all different !

But it looks for sure like very good stone, you can get some good and cheap hones from Takeshi just need to know what to look for.

Conrgats !!!

Here is a sister to your stone. Great stone and congrats!

Thanks, wonderful looking one too.

Hey... wait where did that kiita behind it come from? LOL

I have two that look like that, wooden base and all. I got mine from OS some time ago...good stones...no complaints.

Originally Posted by Disburden

Thanks, wonderful looking one too.

Hey... wait where did that kiita behind it come from? LOL

Your former stone gets used and abused almost daily!!! That Kiita is awesome and consitant surface!

As ypu can see I still have not used the face of this stone and the Kanji are still there. 2/3 of the back surface is lapped and that is how I use it. When I first got it, it cut very fast and after using it, it became apparent that the layer underneath was less aggresive and more compact. I wonder if we live long enough to wear through a few of these stones if they would do that as a general rule.

Of course the miners chose the face of this stone for a reason, so what I did back then probably silly, trying to preserve the kanji. The back was already partialy lapped when I got it and only a little piece of skin on the side of the the stone was and still is evident.

I would guess that the one that show more striations from the side are more likely to show some change and the solid ones less so? Maybe someone more qualified can answer that since I am just guessing...

Nice stone!

I have a Nakayama Maruichi and its a great little stone that gives really good edges. I think J-Nats are pretty much my favourite finishers to be honest. I recently got an Asagi which I love as well.

Originally Posted by Stubear

Nice stone!

I have a Nakayama Maruichi and its a great little stone that gives really good edges. I think J-Nats are pretty much my favourite finishers to be honest. I recently got an Asagi which I love as well.

Ditto on "favourite" for the range of work they can do and the endless variety. Now Stu, how about a picture of your new asagi?