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I go through the sanding progression on a granite plate. I wouldn't call the edges of the octagon handle a 'sharp' edge but more of a crisp edge which I prefer than a slightly rounded edge. I feel the crisp edge adds a higher level of finish then the rounded edge. The rounded edge kind of seems...

The progression i use is this. 100 150 220 400 600 800 1200 micro mesh 4000 micro mesh 6000 micro mesh 8000 micro mesh In the end you get nice shinny horn:biggrin:

Thanks Krakorak, That is the stone. I will get some photos up of the nagura soon.

Ok, I have some dimensions for this stone. It is 43mm thick, 208mm long and 76 mm wide. Hopefully I will get some additional photos up this before the week end

Hey hey zetieum! Thanks for the help. I tried posting from my cell phone and I'm obviously oblivious on how to do it.

Here's a link to a cell phone photo. That seems to be the best I can do right now. I will try to port dimensions tonight.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/rn04rdkf5x3115m/Photo%202014-05-13%2C%203%2002%2025%20PM.jpg?dl=0

I am selling my Ohira Renge Suita, I purchased this stone from Ivan of Tosho knife arts. He picked this stone out of Takeda's inventory when he was visiting a few years back. The stone comes with a nagura Ivan sold me that he said was a great match for the stone. I'm not sure which type of...

The HG Carter is sold, the wabocho is still available.

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Check out the le cresuet forged non stick pans. Best non stick pan I have owned.

Not to rub it in but I got on the wait list in May of 2015. At that point he was estimating a 15 month wait. I got a feeling it's going to be a bit longer than that though.

Just finished up this 240mm konosuke GS with black and white ebony with a marbled buffalo horn ferrule and a muskox horn ferrule end cap.

You need some one to iron your tshirts Jonathan :wink: