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Vasilis excellent point. This is something I have been thinking for a lot
of time. Personally I think honing on a super hard stone is just more
attractive that honing on a piece of glass. The...

Maxim wrote:



I was always under the impression that your ozuku was the hardest stone you had. LV 5+++ you wrote on time. The coticule must be LV 6 lol. Interesting to see that harder does not...

I was just reading this thread again, very interesting points.

I only have 4 natural stones. A takashima karasu, an okuda suita, a nakayama
namito(I guess,got it from mainaman) and a chinese...

Yes, but the Shaptons are synthetic stones. They are still quick,despite being
hard, because they are loaded with grit particles. If a fine and hard stone is very
quick that either means the ...

Alex, thnx for the post.

Could you explain why some very hard stones
still have very good cutting abilities whereas
other hard stones are very slow? I know you
wrote that depends on grit per...