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Hello Kkf,
So I am here looking for some jnat advice. I am relatively new to jnats, but am trying to read voraciously about them to better understand their nature and myriad differences.
First a bit about my usage... I am a professional chef, so my knives get used consistently, however I have a large enough collection that I pretty much pick one or two for the day (specific tasks, fish, butchery, aside), and so rotate a lot, and try and touch up what I use weekly, if not daily. They are pretty much all carbon; whites, blues, 52100, Heiji iwasaki etc.
I use a naniwa superstone 5000 predominantly, and a 1000 Shapton pro if/when necessary. I also have recently acquired my first jnat, a nakayama tomae from Shinichi (kiita size, if this is just the term for a smaller offcut size stone?), which I am in the process of getting the feel for, but is too fine a stone I think for the kind of touch ups I need.
I am looking for a kind of replacement everyday stone, a natural that I can use in the place of the naniwa, to keep my knives at a sharp working level, and before the nakayama when I want to go further. So I think I need an aoto. They seem pretty popular around here, and most often cited as roughly 2-5000 relative synthetic grit. Can anyone recommend any others? And also sourcing - so far all I can find are on JNS, Japan tools, and from Shinichi again (and only Shinichi has anything in stock currently).
Sorry to ramble! Thanks in advance , I am grateful for any advice!
Jacob
So I am here looking for some jnat advice. I am relatively new to jnats, but am trying to read voraciously about them to better understand their nature and myriad differences.
First a bit about my usage... I am a professional chef, so my knives get used consistently, however I have a large enough collection that I pretty much pick one or two for the day (specific tasks, fish, butchery, aside), and so rotate a lot, and try and touch up what I use weekly, if not daily. They are pretty much all carbon; whites, blues, 52100, Heiji iwasaki etc.
I use a naniwa superstone 5000 predominantly, and a 1000 Shapton pro if/when necessary. I also have recently acquired my first jnat, a nakayama tomae from Shinichi (kiita size, if this is just the term for a smaller offcut size stone?), which I am in the process of getting the feel for, but is too fine a stone I think for the kind of touch ups I need.
I am looking for a kind of replacement everyday stone, a natural that I can use in the place of the naniwa, to keep my knives at a sharp working level, and before the nakayama when I want to go further. So I think I need an aoto. They seem pretty popular around here, and most often cited as roughly 2-5000 relative synthetic grit. Can anyone recommend any others? And also sourcing - so far all I can find are on JNS, Japan tools, and from Shinichi again (and only Shinichi has anything in stock currently).
Sorry to ramble! Thanks in advance , I am grateful for any advice!
Jacob