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$250 spf
2038 g
235mm x 60mm wide x 65mm tall
Best medium coarse jnat I've used. About 1k-2k. About as fast as a good speed synthetic. Compared to cerax 1000, this dishes faster but cuts similar speed. A bit finer than the shapton pro . . . Arguably faster in my experience. It's a fast jnat, and really a fast stone, but not as fast as a coarse synth. Grit and stone matrix are perfect and extremely predictable and even AND fast. It does dish, not as fast as a softer red aoto or a cerax 320. So rare to have all these characteristics. The grit is so consistent and fast it feels like a synthetic stone. It feels a lot like my sigma 400 if it were a 1000 grit stone. I could probably flatten the bevel on my deba with this stone, the knife pictured
Saeki comes from the mine in Kyoto next to the aoto. This is a harder more rare black saeki. It's from the now closed Mori Whetstone in Kyoto.
@Pie compared to the softer aoto, this is a slight bit softer and coarser and faster. Basically the same stone at 1-2k grit. Both are same tier stones in quality. The knife has a convex bevel . . . I'll post pictures with my usual tester knife later when I get back. The stone cuts both iron and steel pretty well, no skidding. Hopefully the mud cloud can show how soft the stone is, but it's not a super soft stone at all. . . More medium hardness, tending softer. Not as hard as most synths. It's hard enough that you can glide and adjust pressure to make it cut faster or slower. It likes a lot of water and will cut fast as long as it's not dry. It saturates after awhile. I would use this as the start of a full jnat progression, if you're interested in that kind of thing.
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2038 g
235mm x 60mm wide x 65mm tall
Best medium coarse jnat I've used. About 1k-2k. About as fast as a good speed synthetic. Compared to cerax 1000, this dishes faster but cuts similar speed. A bit finer than the shapton pro . . . Arguably faster in my experience. It's a fast jnat, and really a fast stone, but not as fast as a coarse synth. Grit and stone matrix are perfect and extremely predictable and even AND fast. It does dish, not as fast as a softer red aoto or a cerax 320. So rare to have all these characteristics. The grit is so consistent and fast it feels like a synthetic stone. It feels a lot like my sigma 400 if it were a 1000 grit stone. I could probably flatten the bevel on my deba with this stone, the knife pictured
Saeki comes from the mine in Kyoto next to the aoto. This is a harder more rare black saeki. It's from the now closed Mori Whetstone in Kyoto.
@Pie compared to the softer aoto, this is a slight bit softer and coarser and faster. Basically the same stone at 1-2k grit. Both are same tier stones in quality. The knife has a convex bevel . . . I'll post pictures with my usual tester knife later when I get back. The stone cuts both iron and steel pretty well, no skidding. Hopefully the mud cloud can show how soft the stone is, but it's not a super soft stone at all. . . More medium hardness, tending softer. Not as hard as most synths. It's hard enough that you can glide and adjust pressure to make it cut faster or slower. It likes a lot of water and will cut fast as long as it's not dry. It saturates after awhile. I would use this as the start of a full jnat progression, if you're interested in that kind of thing.
More pictures later
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