Thread: J-Nat club

If you manage , to cut , the upper triangle koppa on 2 pieces - throu the height , it will be great .
The bottom part , toward cawa , looks pure and i bett is harder . The upper you can cut , to naguras ha ha ah a
Very nice stones indeed .

Rusen you aren't considering all the possibilities my friend! How about I cut it like in the first image and use the bottom part for nagura. The top part I hone on the SIDE, which is 140 x 45, and it would be about 65mm thick.

But I think I will keep it as it is, it's a nice conversation piece.

Cheers, Steve

Nice chunk of Pie.

I like the gnarly stones. They have character.

Cheers, Steve

The jnat club doesn't seem to be getting much love lately so time to give it a bump!

First up is a homely hone, like that homely girl that couldn't get a date to the junior prom, until we found out that she makes Julia Child look like a junior waffle house cook. This is a full size asagi bench hone, 35mm thick and it has almost the entire catalog of defects. Bias layer? Check. Open (but very fine and stable) cracks? Check. Corner defect? Check. Shiny spots? Check. Blue paint left over from previous owner? Check. It's also not very pretty. The good news is that none of these features are toxic and all are stable.

But what it is is a large, properly hard, very fine and very smooth Nakayama, as evidenced by some of the black sparking skin left over after the seller removed the blue paint. It produces a lovely smooth razor edge. With it's hardness and thickness, it's a multi-lifetime hone for finishing razors. I may actually put some black lacquer on the sides simply because it would look better than the bits of left-over blue paint.

Next, an oddly shaped ~190x70 Kato-era Maruka kiita, also hard and fine - but expected in this case - an excellent razor finisher. It's also on a hand fitted dais which just goes to show you that when they knew they had first class stuff they usually didn't trim much of it off. Good stuff and getting rarer.

Cheers, Steve

Here's some rock to help the club.



The Puma is sitting shave-ready on top a tomo from JNS, don't know what it is, but a soft and coarse little rock that breaks down very nicely.

Then next to it is the Asano Mejiro and below to the right we have a piece of Uchigumori.

To the right of Uchi is the Asano Botan and below it a piece of Narutaki, a quick and fine little stone and very hard.

To the right of Botan is Tenjyou and above Tenjyou is a chunk of a Nakayama I had cut from a mate330 stone.

My official travel jnat is this Asagi Kan, supposedly a stamped Maruka, but you'd have to look very hard to see that stamp. Maybe use the imagination a little as well [emoji23]

Got in an unusual looking 60-gata (190x70). It's very, very, hard and very, very smooth. I've just honed a GD 66 on light slurry and a Hayashi the same plus 25 clear water strokes, and it appears to be a first class razor hone. There wasn't a discernible difference in those two edges shaving. As Stefan noted in the 'Romancing the Hone' post, you always worry about hard stones getting scratchy on water and also the yake (the orange bands) which tend to be harder and denser. But this one is good, maybe because the matrix is so smooth.

Japan is the land of the rising sun, and the best jnats come from the mountain above Kyoto. Can you see the sunrise behind the mountain in this stone's pattern? Maybe the stone took a kind of 'self-portrait'!

Cheers, Steve

Such a pretty rock!

Nice stone. Speaking of mountains

A Maruuchi Maruka Nakayama Suita?