Thread: Hone of the Day

These are shots of my recent acquisition, an Ozuku Asagi, clearly the first picture is of the stone prior to lapping, showing the stamps. The second of course is post lapping, and the stone is wet showing the Asagi colour. I honed a Thiers Issard Spartacus 7/8 just now, and I took it to the Ozuku after the 8k synthetic level. I looked under magnification and saw that the synthetic striations were all but gone leaving the desired Kasumi finish. I used a fairly thin slurry made using a diamond plate, from the stone itself. I then diluted to water only, doing say, 10 minutes of x strokes. I'll have a shave with it in the morning. This stone is very hard, and an ideal finishing stone, it is full sized and double sided, weighing 1664 grams so it will last well.