Thread: J-Nat club

Originally Posted by alex1921

Yes I pulled the listing up and it translates it as half year salary
Thanks again for all the time and work you put into it.

Thats crazy! the owner must have been a togishi or a barber or something to make an investment like that.

Originally Posted by stev

Thats crazy! the owner must have been a togishi or a barber or something to make an investment like that.

I have no idea what stones used to sell for in Japan back then but I doubt that anybody paid half a year salary for this one in 1965. Don't get me wrong, the stones is pretty clean, no lines, no cracks, has all the corners but no way anybody paid that price for it. Just my opinion.

Originally Posted by alex1921

I have no idea what stones used to sell for in Japan back then but I doubt that anybody paid half a year salary for this one in 1965. Don't get me wrong, the stones is pretty clean, no lines, no cracks, has all the corners but no way anybody paid that price for it. Just my opinion.

Maybe perspective of annual wage comes into play, half a years wage to me is half a practice session to a professional spots star or a day at to office to a successful business fatcat, maybe the guy just liked to be buttery smooth everyday

Originally Posted by alex1921

Yes I pulled the listing up and it translates it as half year salary
Thanks again for all the time and work you put into it.

Done with great pleasure! It was an interesting challenge!

I got a question if i may, so many pictures of jnats, all still have stamps on them, the ohzuku i picked up just arrived and i know that lapping it is gonna remove that stamp, so why do 95% of jnat pics still have a stamp?
are people buying them to re-sell?

Originally Posted by stev

I got a question if i may, so many pictures of jnats, all still have stamps on them, the ohzuku i picked up just arrived and i know that lapping it is gonna remove that stamp, so why do 95% of jnat pics still have a stamp?
are people buying them to re-sell?

I usually take pics before I lap mine. I also don't always lap if the stone comes flat and sometimes the stamps last somewhat through the first lapping or so. I think most of what you are seeing is initial pics so people have documentation of the stamps before lapping flat.

Originally Posted by rideon66

I usually take pics before I lap mine. I also don't always lap if the stone comes flat and sometimes the stamps last somewhat through the first lapping or so. I think most of what you are seeing is initial pics so people have documentation of the stamps before lapping flat.

I do the same. Take pics for my archives, and then lap and use.

That was my other theory, i guess its just the way the world is today that took my mind straight to the buy/sell thought, i remember seeing a large CF hone on ebay that sold for about £40 within a week it was back on ebay sliced into two, both halves £40 each hehe.

Been trying out a piece of unstamped koma from Alex, 190x65mm, lots of testing! Of course, being unstamped the question is, 'Is it really koma?'. TL;DR, it checks all the boxes, both polishing and sharpening.

I've got a decent collection of both vintage and current-generation koma, Asano-stamped, from other companies, and this one falls right in the middle on sharpening fineness, and it produced a darned good kasumi when I gave it a spin on the side of my trusty thinned and polished Masahiro Virgin Carbon. It's also fast and cuts wear-resistant SLD semi-stainless very well.

Good stuff indeed.

Cheers, Steve

Originally Posted by Steve56

Been trying out a piece of unstamped koma from Alex, 190x65mm, lots of testing! Of course, being unstamped the question is, 'Is it really koma?'. TL;DR, it checks all the boxes, both polishing and sharpening.

I've got a decent collection of both vintage and current-generation koma, Asano-stamped, from other companies, and this one falls right in the middle on sharpening fineness, and it produced a darned good kasumi when I gave it a spin on the side of my trusty thinned and polished Masahiro Virgin Carbon. It's also fast and cuts wear-resistant SLD semi-stainless very well.

Good stuff indeed.

Cheers, Steve

Steve, I have a piece of unstamped Botan from Alex and it has the same look on top.