Thread: What Do You Have In The Mail Right Now?

Originally Posted by Druid

Jamie's box is gorgeous, and truly unique. But Gerstner has made similar toolboxes catering to tradesmen for many years..

Unfortunately, I could only afford Kennedys.

H. Gerstner & Sons - Chests, Cases & Cabinets

Yes, those one's are beautiful pieces of craftsmanship, personally, I settled for the $75.00 Harbor Freight chest, does the job!

Originally Posted by eddy79

A Narutaki Mizu Asagi lvl5 and 3 piece Nagura set from Japanese Whetstones. Garret(Jnats) was very patient with all my questions and very helpful pointing me in the direction of what I was looking for.

Well arrived today so here's a picture. Hope to start learning this tonight.

Originally Posted by eddy79

Well arrived today so here's a picture. Hope to start learning this tonight.

Cool, I have a couple I still need to try out. I have had a lot going on lately as usual.

Originally Posted by eddy79

Well arrived today so here's a picture. Hope to start learning this tonight.

A heads up . Your Nagura's CAN scratch your Nakayama. Dont ask how I know. I wet the bottom of my Nagura and make a slurry with a DMT drip that on to your Nakayama.

Originally Posted by ultrasoundguy2003

A heads up . Your Nagura's CAN scratch your Nakayama. Dont ask how I know. I wet the bottom of my Nagura and make a slurry with a DMT drip that on to your Nakayama.

Yep, Garret told me to use an Atoma 1200. Good work Jonathan.

No pictures just a Naniwa 12 SS.
Building a set of Sythetics to Mimic the Big Boys. Chosera 1K,5K, SN 8K,

Originally Posted by eddy79

Well arrived today so here's a picture. Hope to start learning this tonight.

what are the small pieces used for? Seams like they are too small to be useful.

Originally Posted by redtruck

what are the small pieces used for? Seams like they are too small to be useful.

They are nagura. Work on the base stone to make it lower grits so essentially gives me 3 grit ranges before using the stone by itself.

Originally Posted by redtruck

what are the small pieces used for? Seams like they are too small to be useful.

Those little stones are the same type that Samuri warriors used on their swords to ensure a clean cut at the neck.
I have the same ones from Garret and they are a game changer in skilled hands. I thought the same as you. Now I wouldnt trade mine for the world. It makes a system Naguras & Nakayama's that currently are on par with Escher. Coticule. Zulu Grey. But on steroids, and fast food quick. Rock solid repeatable results. A little stone thrown by David killed Goliath. Dont think of them as a slurry stone, they impart a grit particle that imparts its own metal removal and polish at a smaller micron that other current naturuals

Mentioned some time back that my barber had one of these as his first razor when he started out 40 years ago and it was somehow lost.
Well hopefully I can clean this up and surprise him with a shave ready piece of nostalgia.
Maybe get a free hot shave out of it.