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The effect Vasilis described is a useful one. I have a piece of koma and a couple of tomo naguras that are so hard it helps if I use a regular 1200 Atoma to deglaze them and roughen the surface,...

If you produce slurry, you produce scratches.

I don't care for the diamond plate to make visible scratches, so the one I use with all the diamonds missing in the center does not. But it does...

My experience has been the same as Oz's. Fresh ones scratch, mellow ones don't. Of course there are some very fine invisible scratches, as Alx points out, the "nagura", natural or diamond, has to...

Kees,

Your diamond plate needs to look like the attached image! It doesn't scratch.

JNats can be very smooth feeling and sometimes it's difficult to understand just how abrasive a really good...

I think the problem most folks have using diamond plates for slurry is that their plates are not worn out enough. I'm amazed that people use a 325 DMT to raise slurry. If you can still use the plate...

You should shave test each one, but especially the mejiro and tenjyou, they can overlap in fineness. I have one tenjyou that's finer than any mejiro I have.

Also harder stones are usually...

The stamps on the face don't last, they are the first thing to go. BTW, the Maruka stamps used by Kato-San were large and used on the ends of stones. Kato-San is long passed. There isn't any...

Sweet!Cheers, Steve

No, kiita means "yellow board" as I understand it, but a true kiita is yellow, not a shade of brown, tan, etc.Stones that are yellow are uncommon and expensive bcause of their color. It's always...

They're out there and can be had, but Nakayama, kiita, and "reasonably priced" don't go together. Smaller piece of superb Nakayama kiita from Takeshi-San.

Cheers, Steve

Here's some eye candy for the kiita lovers. Left to right, vintage Nakayama Maruka kiita from Alex bought several years ago, 1960's (I think) piece of kiita on a fitted dais, also from Alex, a narrow...

Very true, and prudent. Except if you are a tea room/temple restorer in Japan with 120mm kanna blades instead of straight razors! These are the people driving the prices, not razor people.

5,000€...

You're kind of right ...

Most people when they begin the JNat journey are under the impression that quality drives price. It does, but apparently not as much as size, regularity, and color.

I...

Agreed. Better stones cost more, but "better" usually doesn't mean better for a specific purpose since people buy these stones for tools, knives, and razors, and what's good for one is not...

The stamps, if genuine (and from Takeshi they probably are) mean the stone is a superior GRADE in terms of defects like clipped corners, cracks, lines, and so on. The Maruka stamp DOES NOT mean the...