Thread: JNat adventure just starting!

Originally Posted by Brighty83

Ah ok, so that stone on that site, where would that come from or is there not enough information on the site?

Which site is that?

Asagi Stone

I guess being on the other side of the world makes it iffy to try and send it back (you could always call them).

My small cheap ozuku is a koppa from them, and it is definitely fine enough for a razor - in fact, I would hate to ever numb my brain using it to sharpen a knife, it would be awful, it's too fine for anything other than sharpening a knife for show and tell.

I would imagine that big stone would be fine for razors if other people are finding it to be that. If you have other stones that work well already, though, buying from someone who isn't familiar with relative performance could leave you with a nice stone that still isn't quite as nice as other stones you have. I was looking at that same big asagi initially, but ended up going to alex because I have several times gone the route of buying a stone in the price range of that big asagi - that looks nice - only to find that in the end, I enjoy using other stones I have more because they are smoother, finer, faster, whatever. So, I end up with $250-$300 door stops, (and marginal natural waterstones don't sell that well in the woodworker arena - I have about 6 that I'm stuck with, and sold two off already at a loss of more than half as a reward for being honest about their performance).

Originally Posted by Brighty83

Asagi Stone

they sell stones for knives, you can luck out on a stone that is decent for razors too but it's a risk.
Mark has no experience with honing razors so I doubt he will be able to tell you if the stone is good or not.

I would recommend JNS for quality razor stones.

Thanks,

I have been keeping an eye on JNS but there hasn't been much on there for a while.

I have 3 jnats, all are not bad.

one is 'almost' a final polisher but still a pre-polisher
another that is definitely a pre-polisher
and the other is very hard but average, good for a gritty nagura to set bevels or after a bevel setter etc.

They are all fun to play with though. lol

Ill keep looking on JNS and apparently Alex (thejapanblade) is going on holidays so i cant get one from him for a while either lol