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I forgot to post this one here. Nice Karasu that needed a little help surgically to have a new life.

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A lovely Iromono
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Okudo

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Kamisori really hard stone
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A heavy hard Iromono First pic dry second wet outside
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Testing out new Iromono

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Alex yes a few are easily identified as kiita. Most of mine i think 9 in this pic are actually iromono to some degree so being how I am and wanting to try and understand details that are probably...

I use Atoma.

Thanks.

The Iromono front middle left is a good example of how dry doesn’t look much kiita but wet shows it better.

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So these are various kiita base colors I have some have karasu, Iromono and other patterns that change it a bit, but I would call all the base color kiita to different degrees. I took pics at...

The pics don't show the color as well as I would like and your monitor may make it more green. It sometimes looks yellow brown and other times looks yellow green to green. Depends on wet/dry and the...

Well considering Namito is a strata and not a color and I have a kiita Namito stone not sure what you mean. Kiita are not just a basic yellow.

Nice iromono lime-green Kiita.

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Not sure, but I do know he is also selling these on yahoo.jp under the same as his one of his ebay listings. Plus there there have been alot of stones that look just like his sold on there.

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Ok Alex just wanted to give both you and Steve a little more point of reference on these Narutaki Koppa from Nakayama mountain. First according to everything I have read on Jizuya the Narutaki stone...

Narutaki is also a type of stone used in the final stage of sword polishing and can come from different mines this particular one came from Nakayama.

Just saw Fikira's post and I would also guess...

Hi Steve,

What I find with the harder iromono is that they don't seem as hard as the glassy hard Asagi grey stones, because the slurry has a softness to it, yet some feel just as dense. I am...

One hour 45 minutes.
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Alex,

Now to answer the question I think you were getting at. I will say it this way. I have many Iromono stones and they are a particular favorite of mine as I know they are of yours. Now they...

Hi Alex,

I would not consider these softer stones first off. They are super fine stones though and seem very dense. These took me forever to lap flat. Water just sits on top not absorbed. Need to...

Another Narutaki Nakayama flat. Super fine stones.
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Hey Alex,

It is about 1.25" thick around 5" long and about 1.5" wide honing surface. It has a really creamy micro bubble type slurry. Very nice feel to hone on.

Enjoy,
Tom

Finally got some sun today.
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I thought I posted this here before, but I guess not.
Uchigumori.

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