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I got probably 7 or 8 more stones last night, but didn't open the boxes. I've been figuratively dumpster diving in japan, but also buying some nice ones. Here's one that someone said they got from a...

That's probably about where it was at the end of the honing. I didn't let it dilute fully, and the stone is settling in. I have to admit that the shave was quite pleasant, but a little more keen than...

Honing with tomo, not straight off of the stone, but after linen and leather (which is probably why the edge is visible).

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The scratches suggest to me that the slurry shouldn't be...

I agree about the fine edge. Though I've not perfected a process, I've slurry honed similar to that video, anyway, and noticed that the edge is never harsh. I have had more opportunity to notice the...

That's familiar to me. I have read a lot about craftsmen supposing that the grit is breaking down on a stone, but silica is not that fragile, and neither is most natural alumina.

I have also...

Good shave, but nothing I haven't had before from other common stones. Certainly a stone capable of finishing a razor, but I was hoping for magic and unicorns! Can someone point me to a good...

I will check tomorrow if the shave doesn't satisfy. certainly there won't be prominent directional scratches.

Just water. It's my normal thing, but this stone needs to settle down a little bit from an atoma 400 lap. I don't usually use anything else (to lap) and I don't finish on slurry too often.

This...

It is stamped only on the end. It's been used, though. I don't know how deep the original stamps would go.

I haven't seen a box without a stamp, either.

I have to try some tools on it. It's a...

Another stone arrived today. Hatanaka box, but I'm not so sure about the stone itself. It has developed a small crack at the surface and on the side.

Green, very hard, and aggressive. Not large...

Curiously enough, the top razor that looks the best falls a little short when it comes to an actual shave. It shaves and doesn't pull, but it's just not quite there.

You just never know, I guess....

Following up, all with the friodur:

A picture straight off of the ohira stone - visible scratches (stone is on the hard side and doesn't release anything on clear water):
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Then off of...

Pictures of the edge from these stones. I have a bunch more stones on the way, just haven't tried them yet, so I'm treading water.

This is the edge from the ohira suita (the second one above)....

Not that it's important, but the above suita will also finish a razor. I suspect that I'm buying these stones from is a dealer and he's not using the same name elsewhere for reasons I'm not sure of....

What I believe to be an ohira suita with some renge. Not a stone for someone who doesn't like lines!

Big (45mm thick) and not particularly expensive for what it is. I could tell from the listing...

I was a bit wrong about shipping of other stones. It'll be a few days before I get more, but I should have 10 or so, maybe 15 coming (I can't remember) over the next couple of weeks.

I broke out...

I have been whining about the price of jnats lately, and the surge of junk stones now being purpose sold. Someone somewhere is boasting about their "market making".

This is at the top of my mind...