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Well to be fair Dave said : for example, some of the wakasa and iwatani stones that are coming out inexpensively from japan right now may be very fine, but they might not have really good feel or any...

Every stone is different. A softer kiita will give me the same skin comfort finishing on water as a very hard Jnat on slurry.

You just have to try and see what works the best for your...

Same experience here. Was testing a stone and used 2 different hard, quality tomo. Razor was tugging. Rubbed a full stone that I was prepping to cut due to one inclusion and boom perfect shave. Went...

Thank you.
It's 230x85x42. Brick size :)

Occasionally I get a stone that makes me feel like a kid on Xmas. Well this very hard suita is one of those stones.

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just few tomonagura. Sometimes the rubbing stone is better looking than the base stone, right upper, super hard and unique looking :)

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Some are fitted so perfectly that when I apply 3-4 layers of cashew I have trouble placing them back in. Have you guys seen this? Do you put the tight fitting stones back with the Dai dry or wet?...

I would say this iromono kiita is my most beautiful Jnat. Big slab.


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One more Karasu added to the collection. Besides the crows it has both grey and yellow asagi colors with some nashiji.
Very hard razor finisher.


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Like Steve said some Jnat guys know tell tell signs of mine provenance. If you read on So Yamashita's site he specifically refers to being able to tell certain characteristics of Okudo for example...

Not a linguist or Japanese speaker so I am going by Fikira's site. He has Asagi translated as light yellow, mizu which is water gives mizu asagi, blue like water etc. Now this comes probably from...

Nice stones Steve. I always enjoy seeing pics from your collection.
To me kiita is yellow. I understand that sometimes it's hard to tell kiita and asagi apart, I have seen discussion where the...

The hardest suita in the house so far. It's behaving more like a hard grey asagi when you lap it. Doesn't want to give up slurry. Did a full Mikawa progression, koma did kick up base stone, and...

2 kiitas added. Both very hard, rather unexpected for stones of this color, at least I was surprised.

First is a small stone, I added a pic with a razor on it for comparison. Well whatever it...

Yeah I would say futile guessing game.

All one can tell from those stamps. It's a 330mate stone. Some love him, some hate him. Never bought anything from him so I can't judge.
My suggestion. Forget about mines and names and use your...

Striped Botan. 295 gr or so. Fairly big chunk.

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I have different mejiro's but this one is probably the most beautiful. Came in a box sitting in a little nest.

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Unknown mine Asagi. The same marker No18 is on the dai that the stone came with. Not super hard, some base stone comes up with nagura. Just a lovely stone to hone on and at this point my favorite.
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I have no idea what stones used to sell for in Japan back then but I doubt that anybody paid half a year salary for this one in 1965. Don't get me wrong, the stones is pretty clean, no lines, no...

Yes I pulled the listing up and it translates it as half year salary:)
Thanks again for all the time and work you put into it.

Got a stone and I am curious about the kanji. I played with the filters and that's the best I could do to enhance it. Any idea what it says?

Thank you in advance


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That answers my question of any others being around. Great.

If you won't mind, I would like to use those pictures of your stone for my article :angel:

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That's absolutely fine.
I visit your website all the time and it has helped me...

:) Yeah that smell is something. Performance I don't know. It's sitting idle in a drawer for now.