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+1 yes. Thank you for this.

That is seriously awesome. You do great work- perhaps a special appearance of belt grinder of the day showing your setup in hone of the day?

Very nice! :tu

I know what you mean. Asagi/Lime Kiita hybrids are some of my favorite when done right and yours is completely pure and consistent with iromono pinks- That is a top tier razor quality stone.
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What are you talking about, Kyle? I thought we got you cured of HAD! You have a wedding to save for.
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You guys rang?:p

With true razor quality Japanese whetstones Best edges have will you. :jedi:

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Okay, Tanjifuji Razor

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Nice kiita tomo! Looks edible.

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My current fascination is this Nakayama Iromono Level 4+

Or some "colorful laundry" from "Nakayama Mine" a somewhat 'soft' stone at 4+ that feels even softer to the touch and...

The problem I see with these two photos, to be devil's advocate as it questions what I see as confirmation to my own findings and beliefs (which are of course that quality Japanese Whetstones are...

Thank you for putting this together! This is a great comparison, am I off in assuming that "off the reservation in the name of science" is an apache strata? If so please correct me.

you are...

Well merry Christmas to me! I feel like the belle of the ball. :beer1:

I have a theory about this: Anything worth doing is worth doing right. I'll skip my second tenet "Perfect is good enough" and agree with rezdog in this case: Do your very best and you will be better...

Okay. Kamisori had a nasty frown notch from possible edge damage and the barber honing on a mounded stone. Ground a bunch of steel off to reset the bevel on Shapton 3k (my favorite synthetic stone)...

Maybe it's best that you know "very little" as your post is much more concise and useful to the point than mine!! :chapeau



No rush Johnathan. Those pictures are amazing and do a great service...

Christian: No. and Sure. There is not a need for nagura to make quality stones work. I do most of my razors without asano Nagura- I use very very nice Kiita and set the bevel and finish on the same...

Yes, this normal for my razor quality Japanese Whetstones. Wow those are beautiful bevels man and great photos!! The top bevel looks especially nice and fuzzy. I can tell from your bevel photos that...

too kind. Nah. Just a guy that likes sharp things with rocks in his head. I'm checking with mods to see about pics. And Jigane is the soft iron of a blade in blades with 2 types of steel, like katana...

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It truly is the thinking man's toishi!

And that is a VERY nice looking stone, if it is actually this color, as yellow as it looks and pure as it looks- you did *very* well and are lucky to switch from that other... *ahem* 'kiita'. :D ...

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A very modest looking grey tomae, this is one of my "thinking man's toishi" :hmmm:

An old Narutaki surgeon's toishi. The magical part is tough to decide- the fact that it can...

Beautiful tomae steve! subtle iro coloring.... mmm. Also, an envious razor Glen.

To each their own. But with thousands of pounds of toishi in my collection, and many more that I handled but did not make the cut- I'm pretty accurate with assessing a stones purity by looking at it,...

That is a toxic wire. Likely you did not lap the stone when you received it or not by much? What is common practice for the informed *owner* of a hone they knowingly bought with a toxic inclusion to...