Thread: J-Nat club

A nice suita just showed up and a Nakayma koppa.

Those are beauties Stefan!

Cheers, Steve

Originally Posted by Steve56

Those are beauties Stefan!

Cheers, Steve

Thanks Steve

Suita stones are the ones that are white with brownish swirls? I see them all the time, but I always thought they were mainly good for kitchen knives. Are there razor quality suita?

Originally Posted by prodigy

Suita stones are the ones that are white with brownish swirls? I see them all the time, but I always thought they were mainly good for kitchen knives. Are there razor quality suita?

They can be all kinds of colors I'll snap a quick pic of all that I have right now. They are great to use after 1k to bridge right to the finisher. Much faster than nagura progression.

Lately I've only been using one synthetic stone. My kiita stones from alex cut so fast that in a matter of seconds all 1k stria are completely gone. They are also fine enough to stop there, but I usually go to one of my top finishers after the kiita. I've never seen that much improvement of my edges doing a full nagura progression, versus just using a mejiro or koma or tomo. It all looks the same when visually inspecting the edge regardless of which nagura I use. I imagine the feel would be different if I tried shaving after each one.

Originally Posted by mainaman

A nice suita just showed up and a Nakayma koppa.

Fantastic Stefan! Enjoy.

Originally Posted by prodigy

Lately I've only been using one synthetic stone. My kiita stones from alex cut so fast that in a matter of seconds all 1k stria are completely gone. They are also fine enough to stop there, but I usually go to one of my top finishers after the kiita. I've never seen that much improvement of my edges doing a full nagura progression, versus just using a mejiro or koma or tomo. It all looks the same when visually inspecting the edge regardless of which nagura I use. I imagine the feel would be different if I tried shaving after each one.

That works well with softer steels, with very hard steels like most Japanese razors it will be faster to get a suita between the 1k and the finisher. Of course synthetics solve the issue with wear resistance easily.

Originally Posted by mainaman

They can be all kinds of colors I'll snap a quick pic of all that I have right now. They are great to use after 1k to bridge right to the finisher. Much faster than nagura progression.

Here three of my suita, that see frequent use in my progression.

Originally Posted by mainaman

Here three of my suita, that see frequent use in my progression.

The left, pure one looks great. By the way, I'm avoiding stones with these red/brown lines, although everyone says they are safe. Are they cracks, or maybe inclusions of softer material? Sorry if I'm getting off topic.