Thread: Hone of the Day

Originally Posted by gssixgun

That stone is the closest one I have ever seen to my Nakayama if the color is a slight Greenish tint like it looks on my monitor

I was thinking about the color earlier, and it's almost a mix between Asagi and kiita, which is like an olive green. It has lots of little dots, but I'm not sure if they would be considered nashiji or not.
Dry


Wet


And the dots

Henkotsu on Nakayama. Some light bevel work on Botan slurry. Honed through Mejiro, Koma and finished with the Nakayama tomo.

heres the new jnat coming my way. Im excited to say the least!

Jyunshin Shohonyama Nakayama Maruka Kiita Nashiji

Monday Big ole' honking W&B finished on the select Coti using the "CRUSHED" slurry technique




Really nice edge was the result, had to re-contour the heel and shoulder and take out a huge frown in front of that first

2 Threads, 1 stone.
A very modest looking grey tomae, this is one of my "thinking man's toishi"

An old Narutaki surgeon's toishi. The magical part is tough to decide- the fact that it can be fast and do kasumi, or turn into a mirror polisher lickity split with a switch of the wrist? Or the smell. My favorite historic tennen toishi usually have their own very distinct scent that is a vacation for me to a time and place. Some smell like old boat houses, or lakes, some the spray of the ocean, or have asmr like honing sounds.

This one smells strongly of anesthetic, like a hospital or dentists office. at first it was a bit of putting, but now tanquil. The goma is a rare treat too- I hate goma. I love this goma. this is more like fine mesh iron filings clumped together as inclusions- they have no jarring feel on the blade and are very soft and helpful in fast sharpening whether jigane kasumi finish or polishing the hado of the hagane bevel of this kamisori. I like to sit and think of how it became so entrenched with the scent of anesthetic- whether it was constant over time, or a fateful spill one day.

Originally Posted by prodigy

heres the new jnat coming my way. Im excited to say the least!

Jyunshin Shohonyama Nakayama Maruka Kiita Nashiji

And that is a VERY nice looking stone, if it is actually this color, as yellow as it looks and pure as it looks- you did *very* well and are lucky to switch from that other... *ahem* 'kiita'. This is a stone I myself would buy, should be a killer razor stone. Hold on to it- the yellow ones may as well be real gold. I'm salivating at the sight of its vibrant yellow glow and perfect nashi-ji peppered pattern.

Originally Posted by jnats

2 Threads, 1 stone.
A very modest looking grey tomae, this is one of my "thinking man's toishi"

An old Narutaki surgeon's toishi. The magical part is tough to decide- the fact that it can be fast and do kasumi, or turn into a mirror polisher lickity split with a switch of the wrist? Or the smell. My favorite historic tennen toishi usually have their own very distinct scent that is a vacation for me to a time and place. Some smell like old boat houses, or lakes, some the spray of the ocean, or have asmr like honing sounds.

This one smells strongly of anesthetic, like a hospital or dentists office. at first it was a bit of putting, but now tanquil. The goma is a rare treat too- I hate goma. I love this goma. this is more like fine mesh iron filings clumped together as inclusions- they have no jarring feel on the blade and are very soft and helpful in fast sharpening whether jigane kasumi finish or polishing the hado of the hagane bevel of this kamisori. I like to sit and think of how it became so entrenched with the scent of anesthetic- whether it was constant over time, or a fateful spill one day.

You are KILLING me!

Originally Posted by sharptonn

You are KILLING me!

It truly is the thinking man's toishi!

[QUOTE=gssixgun;1572264]Monday Big ole' honking W&B finished on the select Coti using the "CRUSHED" slurry technique

Ok please explain Crushed slurry. Dry slurry stone rubbed on dry lapping plate to make chunklets?

Thread Branch

This is one of the really cool parts of SRP sometimes a separate convo gets started and takes off so well that it requires a Thread Branch


http://straightrazorpalace.com/hones...rminology.html


Really looking forward the the new thread taking off also


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