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No running in the house.... or you have to play "outside" :p

Thread went O/T to Coticules so have moved those posts to Honing forum under new title, "Coticules for Dummies"
That discussion can be continued at link below:...

It's likely, again depending on each stone involved.
Usual disclaimer. The bevel set is a major influence on your finishing results.

To use synthetics as a comparison, consider the prefinisher as the 10 - 16k you may use before a 20 - 30 k
You certainly can use nagura on a finisher but sometimes the work goes quicker with a...

I 'm just quoting what So told me Jim, that's mostly what he sells for razors but his supply would be from his fathers huge collection so not likely that they are purchasing from dealers currently.

Asagi (light blue) is also a colour that spans quarries & strata yet I would bet all the good Asagi finishers,be they Oozuku or Nakayama, are from Namito stratum. Ironically the 2 colors, Kiita &...

The point is the few guys here that use Kiita would associate them as being a razor finisher, most likely fairly hard which is not so common either for Kiita. I'm sure you're correct about the...

Fair enough but I've never seen a Kiita on So's website that wasn't from Namito. In fact when I asked him specifically he said Kiita & Suita are not associated.

Yes. Kiita is not a layer it is the name of a yellowish stone from the Namito layer. To add that name to a Suita is somewhat misleading.

Kiita Suita is a nonsense. These are 2 different stones from 2 different layers.

Tennen Toishi loosely translates to Natural Whetstone.

Uchigumori is a stone generally used in sword polishing...