Uchigumori stone.

For sale to Canada and the ConUS is the following Uchigumori stone purchased from Watanabe. If is an excellent stone, easy to work with and leaves a nice finish but it overlaps with too many others in the collection. Screen grabs below from Sin's site as well as a current pic of the stone and a knife finished on the stone. The stone was sealed and lapped upon arrival and only 3-4 knives have been polished on it since purchase.

Shipping: Confirmation within 2 business days of completed payment via traceable and insured postal product.

Price: As noted in the details the original price is 38,000JPY or ~ 355USD + shipping. Selling for 275 shipped and PayPalled.

Please PM if you have any questions and thanks for looking.

Uchigumori with HS 53 give usually a nice balance between forgiveness, details on the clad and clean semi mirror on the core.. GLWS

Thanks Nutmeg. It is a great stone but unfortunately we just can’t keep them all.

Thoughts on this stone for and edge finisher?

I have several Hazuya stones from Sin in this hardness range and they are all excellent edge finishers. Shinichi recommended I try it out some time ago and I occasionally use them after a JNS 6000, Kitayama or similar. So, you could use this stone cosmetically or for finishing an edge.

How hard is this stone?

MrChen said:

How hard is this stone?

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HS53 around 2.5-3 on the JNS scale maybe

geoff_nocon said:

HS53 around 2.5-3 on the JNS scale maybe

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IMO HS53 is clearly more than 2.5, I'd say 3-3.5, 2.5 for me is a clearly soft stone where the slurry is mostly stone and HS53 is more a middle hardness where there's still a fair bit of stone in the slurry but not nearly as much. My HS52 was definitely what I would call lvl3+, and the slurry was very dark as opposed to the pure stone slurry with atoms which was pull pink. That said this is all subjective.

valgard said:

IMO HS53 is clearly more than 2.5, I'd say 3-3.5, 2.5 for me is a clearly soft stone where the slurry is mostly stone and HS53 is more a middle hardness where there's still a fair bit of stone in the slurry but not nearly as much. My HS52 was definitely what I would call lvl3+, and the slurry was very dark as opposed to the pure stone slurry with atoms which was pull pink. That said this is all subjective.

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Thanks valgard. I’m not as familiar with the JNS scale as I am with Sin’s but your lvl3+/dark slurry description is a good match for this stone.

Thank you folks.
Interested. Pm sent.

tripleq said:

Thanks valgard. I’m not as familiar with the JNS scale as I am with Sin’s but your lvl3+/dark slurry description is a good match for this stone.

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Sold.