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Hi guys, I have stone for sale. Mikawa tenjyou nagura, dimensions : 187 x 57 x 40, 950 g. Doesn't have a stamp, but I tested it with stamped stone at hand so I am confident in the identification process. Clean stone, no impurities. Makes beautiful kasumi with lots of contrast (polish done on...

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I have okudo I want to sell, I will pm you

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Well, handle not aligned properly (but it fits in the hand, so I dont care). After year of thinning and sharpening, left side of the blade is flat, on the right side there is one lowspot left (area between the tip and tsunami wave). The worst thing was actually the tf sharpening part, aside from...

OH hell yes, here we go, tf nashiji petty 150mm, shipped directly from the allmighty tf himself. After contact with stones, hell was revealed

Depends what do you want to do with it. For actual sharpening (for european knives and such sort, things with narrow surface) I would take shapton pr0 2k, simply because of hardness. For everything else i like the king hyper 2k more, better surface finish and superior feedback.

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Hi, I have stone for sale. Suita, unknown mine. Dimensions: 225 x 85/90 x 23/25 mm, weights 1194g. Hardness is 4/5, feedback is nice, you can feel the stone cutting. Very fast stone, makes inky black slurry. On knife edge it makes very nice agressive finish with lots of bite. For kasumi check...

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Am I the only person here using laboratory glassware for measuring? :D :D

Easy answer for that, mug texture makes lot of difference when preparing the lather. When I tried to make lather in smooth bowl it didn't do ****. I switched to rough ceramic bowl and since then I had no issues.

I have the 2k, and for its purpose (for me mainly preparing surfaces for polishing) its a perfect stone. Hardness is just right, feedback is great. Speed is fine, dishing exists but is not really an issue, as I tend to flatten my stones often. I would agree that 2K is not really common grit, for...