Quote Originally Posted by Lesslemming View Post
only one more thing for the record:

The term Asagi has been used in this thread as if it were a type of stone. It is not.
Asagi referrs to the colour of the stone being blue(ish). Any kind of (japanese) stone might be called Asagi
and not necessarily even remotely useable for razors. The word Asagi can be used to further describe a stone.
Like in "I have a Nakayama Asagi, your Nakayama is Kiita".
When there was a time that J-Nat was equal to Nakayama b/c it was a bit hyped the quarry was simply left out.
Now we have to specify the type of stone since we came upon a couple of different mines.

Concluding the Asagi does not exist
This is yet another reason I asked about the CKTG Asagi, because that's what they call it "asagi". nothing else, no mine, no nothing, so it's hard to tell what it is. And while it's not expensive in the world of large japanese stones, it's not cheap to buy and find out you don't really like it.

My story right now, and I'm going to stick to it for until it's convenient to change it, is that I don't want to learn everything in the world about a razor finishing stone, I just want one that works.

The stone I bought from alex is labeled Ozaki Asagi. I like using a stone dealer in the world of natural stones, all I have to do is say "I'd like a hard stone that I can shave off of".