So lately I got a few questions from few people from this forum, but also from totally different country how would I rate and whats my general opinion on white binsui Maksim is selling.
My answer is the same. Its not perfect, cause it doesnt stand on its own - I always use it with nagura, yet with right amount of mud and water this stone is excellent.
Now, I dont want to sound like its this way cause it came from Maksim, but this is my only binsui and only that level grit stone, both in naturals and synthetics.
So I wanted to show all you guys something.
Below is my trusty Yoshihiro Deba 21cm, which went through halibut-hell and salmon-hell and lately through turbot-hell with me and helped me a great deal.
Now for everydays sharpening reality I dont polish my knives all the way. Obviously. But I still want my knives to look decent and for the contrast between jigane and hagane to be nice and visible.
I tried to apply nagura mud on JNS 1K but this stone just suck at this particular job.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So basically my regular maintaining-sharpening setup is of two stones: JNS 1K, but place here any decent 1K stone for burr forming and that can remove DMTs scratches easily, and the binsui, and a natural stone nagura.
For double bevel knives it gives me great toothy yet polished edge, I would call it very similar to what suehiro leaves, yet the business end lives lot longer than from synthetics.
For single bevels very usable edge without too long time invested.
Note on the side that I still do back side with finer stone[ohira]. I dont touch back side with any other stone, haha until im very lazy but shhhhh!
And here are the pics.
Doesnt look all that bad, for the price?
I cannot really stress it enough, all you need it two stones, even if you want to have decent polish on your Shig. Buy some fingerstones and from here you could have even better result in 20 minutes.
I noticed that Jon sells now binsui also, maybe it will work same way?
My answer is the same. Its not perfect, cause it doesnt stand on its own - I always use it with nagura, yet with right amount of mud and water this stone is excellent.
Now, I dont want to sound like its this way cause it came from Maksim, but this is my only binsui and only that level grit stone, both in naturals and synthetics.
So I wanted to show all you guys something.
Below is my trusty Yoshihiro Deba 21cm, which went through halibut-hell and salmon-hell and lately through turbot-hell with me and helped me a great deal.
Now for everydays sharpening reality I dont polish my knives all the way. Obviously. But I still want my knives to look decent and for the contrast between jigane and hagane to be nice and visible.
I tried to apply nagura mud on JNS 1K but this stone just suck at this particular job.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So basically my regular maintaining-sharpening setup is of two stones: JNS 1K, but place here any decent 1K stone for burr forming and that can remove DMTs scratches easily, and the binsui, and a natural stone nagura.
For double bevel knives it gives me great toothy yet polished edge, I would call it very similar to what suehiro leaves, yet the business end lives lot longer than from synthetics.
For single bevels very usable edge without too long time invested.
Note on the side that I still do back side with finer stone[ohira]. I dont touch back side with any other stone, haha until im very lazy but shhhhh!
And here are the pics.
Doesnt look all that bad, for the price?
I cannot really stress it enough, all you need it two stones, even if you want to have decent polish on your Shig. Buy some fingerstones and from here you could have even better result in 20 minutes.
I noticed that Jon sells now binsui also, maybe it will work same way?