Thread: J-Nat club

Once i initialy lapp my Jnats , i ususaly relapp them , every use , with veeery used dmt , or i rubb them one against other.
Works fantastic and you will avoid scratches on them. You will relapp them and smoothen them , also like that .

Ok I ended up putting 5 coats of shellac. I want to preserve what is left of the fading ink stamp. This stone is very dense. I can't wait to do a real testing session.

I rarely lap my jnats anymore. What I've found over the years is that most of the wear comes from raising a slurry, not honing the razor. Carefully using the tomo nagura evenly over the whole surface helps keep the hone flat. I check mine by sighting at a bare bulb and if the reflection does not distort as it moves across the face of the hone, it's as flat as it can be. Same as plate glass.

My synths, Shapton Pros and HC, get cleaned with the Naniwa 'brown biscuit' used the same way, evenly across the entire hone surface and not just where the swarf builds up and they stay much flatter too. The coarse hones get more pressure and uneven use removing problems and fixing Gold Dollar geometry and need to be lapped more often.

Cheers, Steve

Originally Posted by Steve56

This is karasu, or 'crow' pattern. The base color is usually gray, khaki, a shade of brown, or even yellowish.

Cheers, Steve

Mine was described as Karasu, would you agree? "536"

Originally Posted by JOB15

Mine was described as Karasu, would you agree? "536"

Personally I would not call that a karasu. The stone on 536 to me is a beautiful and unusual asagi, but not 'crow'. But it's just a coloration thing. The Japanese described many things with terms from nature, and karasu referred to a pattern that looked like crow wings against a dull sky. Yake meant sunrise/sunset and referred to the yellow-orange color of the sky at sunrise or sunset, goma means sesame seed, nashiji means pear skin.

Here's a couple more pics. Karasu will also frequently have a black layer on the back of the stone if it wasn't removed, and you can often see thin black lines on the edges of the stone that are the edges of the 'crows'.

Cheers, Steve

On closer inspection of my stone it does have those wing like markings only they are white and not black.
The stones with the black Karasu like in your pictures are the most attractive stones,imo.

I questioned Mr Maksim about my Maruka that had no Maruka markings.

He informed me that my stone was a Maruka and this picture shows the remnants of a Maruka stamp..

There is but a tiny part of that stamp left now since all my lapping n washing..

Thank God . The Maruka spirit flows through me once again Life is good..

Not trying to burst your bubble, but I don't think that is, or ever was, a maruka stamp. If the stone is good, then it's good. Fretting over the stamp is going to drive you crazy lol.

Originally Posted by prodigy

Not trying to burst your bubble, but I don't think that is, or ever was, a maruka stamp. If the stone is good, then it's good. Fretting over the stamp is going to drive you crazy lol.

hmmm..
can I get more opinions guys plz

I was told that there was a faint Maruka stamp on the side but from the pictures I cant see anything apart from this mark on the end..
Cheers ..Joe

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