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schanop

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Received the new red stone from Maximo's last week sale on Monday and have been playing with it for a bit.

It is quite as Maxim describes, fairly similar to red Atagoyama, both in hardness and fineness. I think it is quite a performer for wide bevel (single bevel knives included) carbon knives; tested with Hide blue #1 yanagiba, and Sakai Takayuki blue #2 usuba so far. With semi-stainless Yoshikane SKD, cladding gummed up the stone a little bit easier.

Now for a quick photo comparison within the stone line up that I usually use.

Let's start with superb JNS 800. It is quite easy to get dark even finish with this stone.

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Next is bestor 1200. Didn't spend much time on this, so finish is so so. If I spend time, a greyish even finish is obtainable.

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The famous, prone to crack, synthetic aoto. Result could have been more even, but cracks interfere with sharpening and polishing a bit, although I tried to polish between crack lines.

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New JNS red aoto. It can produce nice and even finish easily, not as dark as JNS 800.

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Red Atagoyama. This is still a better stone that JNS red aoto tries to imitate, very close though. I still find that atagoyama feels better and a bit easier to use.

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For a final comparison on finish, a hakka. If spending a bit more time, I can get a nice even, matt, relatively dark, fine finish through out the blade. There are some patches of streak in this.

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Everyone should have a hakka! or three :thumbsup:
 
Guys, just to continue: everyone should have a lot of good Jnats, and better be rich and healthy!
 
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