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Well, it wouldn't surprise me. I mean, the same color in a color coded set would just be odd, especially coming from the same factory. I mean, how do they not mix them up?

Of course, the real...

Please do, I'm keen to know...

But the problem I'm having is, this stone is not available in JAPAN. Foreign market yes, Japanese market no. This is what troubles me so...this is what keeps me up at night, weeping and...

Yeah, but every other stone is the same...#120-white, #220-Moss, #320-Blue/Black, #1000 Orange and so on, up to #30,000-purple....All of them are exactly the same in Japan/US listings, except for the...

So how do we explain all the other stones that have the same grit in Japan and the US?

I was thinking about that, too...but then the stones that have the same numbers, i.e. the pro 30,000 is the same in the US and Japan, would they be a different stone in Japan and the USA (same...

Well, since the Japanese Shapton only has a 12,000, the cream, which is very VERY similar to the American 15,000 cream (and, incidentelly, many people say the Kitayama is a 10k-12k stone, but the...

Ok, so a discussion in this thread has kind of brought home some different ides I've been thinking about for a while.

It appears that some of the Japanese synthetic stone makers have some stones...