Nakayama !? + tsushima nagura + oozuku nagura razor honing
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Shobu Mizu Asagi 4lb.1oz. Japanese whetstone
In my scale, it is the hardness: 8.9 and the particle size: 9.0
It is very hard and very fine grit stone.
Japanese Natural Barber Hone
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Nakayama Japanese Honing Stone/Boker refresh
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Karasu Jnat Koppa Straight Razor Hone
A quick glance at a nice Karasu Koppa.
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Shobu Asagi 1020g Japanese natural sharpening stone
It is very hard stone, but it makes very fine finish.
Testing Huge Nakayama Iro Tomae #250 tennen toishi Japanese Stone
Kanna blade and Deba knife testing a super fast totally fine honyama Nakayama stone that weighs 3 1/2 pounds.
Jouzou Tushihashi is splitting Shiro Suita mined in Maruoyama.
Jouzou Tushihashi is splitting Shiro Suita mined in Maruoyama.
Ohira Suita Sharpening
It has one long line, but it seems O.K. for the sharpening. It is along the sharpening stroke, so in the future, if it will make trouble for sharpening, I think that we can dig out little bit from the sharpening surface.
Nakayama Suita Sharpening
I felt what it looks very hard in the beginning, but after sharpened a couple minutes, started on producing slurry very well. Over all, it looks kind of soft finishing hone, and it made up semi-mirror finish on the Hagane side and frost silver color on Jigane.
It is easy to work with.
Hand held razor honing on a natural Japanese Karasu
Using a hand held Saga area Shobudani Karasu I finish up a vintage Boker Tree Brand hollow ground razor with the minimal number of strokes. Beginning with a DN diamond nagura slurry to tomonagura slurry with palm stropping.
Renge Suita without raising slurry
Revisiting Mizukihara Awasedo Japanese natural stone
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Hard Narutaki Tamagohiro Iromono
Used this very hard Narutaki to polish my Halcyonforge gyuto, the stone is very hard but fast and smooth, leaves a deep mirror finish that looks amazing on this knife.
Narutaki #415 Aka-pin kamisori toishi honing a vintage Bartmann German straight
Bevel set to HHT3 using TheAxMethond
Part 2 Kyoto Toishi Awasedo Mines of 3 parts.
Part 2 of 3 parts series on the Tamba mine of Hideriyama, the furthest mine to the west of Kyoto.
Ozaki asagi #456 using TheAxMethod of razor hone testing.
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