J-Nat Club

[zetieum]

There is a new bus stop in Cologne südstadt: Danieler Wall.

 

[Doug]

Wow, lot of nice stones in the J-Nat club lately.
This just arrived from the Badgertooth collection. Maruoyama shiki uchigumori. Cool stone.
Played with it a little while tonight.
Different from Ohira uchigumori both in look and feedback. Love the veins of namazu that run through it. The color and contrast remind me of the white bellies of catfish. Feels almost like a cross between awasedo and aoto. When working an edge it gives off that "micro crackle" feel and sound that aoto have. Nice bitey edge on aebl, ginsan and white steel.
Gives up slurry on a wide bevel with a little pressure. Fairly fast and looks good for kasumi work. I'm going to enjoy getting to know this stone.
Thanks Otto

 

[Badgertooth]

She's a beauty Doug and I think there's a lot of nuance to get to know and explore with that stone. Namazu could not have been more apt a name than for this stone.

 

[Badgertooth]

1 of 5 new Aizu



My now broken in half new Suita


Whistle clean shou Honyama Awasedo brick



Squelchy soft shou Honyama Awasedo with namazu and a second stamp that I'm struggling with but might be Oouchi

 

[Krassi]

WOOW!
Thats also the Otto-Stone-Avalanche!
Very cool stones and you are lucky that the Suita broke into 2 Suitas and not two chunks of debris.
Also that Maruyami Shiki looks very good! The namazu looks like Gold veins on the picture and the color is very dark. Cool stone.

Do you intend to buy all Aizus in Japan Otto? ) because 1 of 5 is pretty crazy!
Well since they all differ a bit i am glad my first one is spot on and fits me best.

Seeya ,daniel!

 

[Krassi]

HihO!

Finally after a 4 month world tour "japan-germany-back to japan-germany" i got my NOS Narutaki.
I already got a red one also NOS from the same label and this time its a ocre/green one.

So it has all the flashy stamps on it and the sticker was never removed before .. ahhhh removing it was pure porn like if you remove the plastic protection foil from a new cellphone or tv !

Ok i used a small Shiro Koma Nagura to protect the stamps and holy karate!!! even with slower nagura slurry (slower than diamond plate) it gave me an instant dark mud after 5 strokes.. with more it turned pretty sick dark..
And thats not all its polishing as fast! removes scratches instantly and now i have porn grin burned in my face that wont go away )

So jackpot!

Seeya Daniel

now thats my third narutaki.. nice stones!!

 

[foody518]

Krassi, I want a job that pays like yours seems to 😅😆

 

[valgard]

Krassi, I want a job that pays like yours seems to 😅😆

I'm second in line please

 

[Krassi]

i also want a job that pays like a good job
well because i am mad and bought stones like a maniac so that i lived on mastercard after the first week of the month because the last months stone bill made my bankaccount instant zero for the rest of the month ..
Nope.. it was just pure madness and dondt look for stones when you are drunken ) .. it was to often that i bought something.. well very often.

So this one is a real hit like i predicted. i only had some crappy overbright pictures of the stone. but it had the same sticker like the other narutaki that i already had.
i simply adjusted the colors and contrast until it matched . so i knew that its actually a ocre color stone like i wanted.

thats pretty close to the actual stone
only 3 to go.. wakasa and orange-red nakayama remover of scratches.

Seeya Daniel

 

[Badgertooth]

i lived on mastercard after the first week of the month because the last months stone bill made my bankaccount instant zero for the rest of the month ..

The struggle is real for a rockhound. I'm struggling to decide which of my children or organs or, as a last resort, knives and stones to sell to make that MasterCard look a little less scary.

 

[Krassi]

Yep! we know that feeling (insert "that feeling" meme here)
The problem is that i actually wanna keep them all.. its so hard to decide wich i should sell.. the redundancy is super high between good stones... "something softer super polishing", "a Suita" or "Something hard for the finishing move"

 

[dwalker]

I've been stone crazy recently as well. I have put a self imposed moratorium on purchasing any more until after the blade show in Atlanta in June.

 

[Krassi]

You have to pull the brake at some point
Still got too many good ones that its hard to decide wich one must go. The new one is a keeper.. toothy edge 11/10 .. sick stone and idiot prove simple to use because its not to hard, hyper fast and a great polisher.
its strange that you see narutakis not really often here used for kitchenknifes ..

 

[Badgertooth]

Sealing day

 

[BlueSteel]

Sealing day

Hi Otto,

Nice pic of those stones all lined up!

Quick question - I'm about to do some sealing of a group of stones soon but have never done this before. My thinking was that I should use painter's tape to cover the sharpening surface, put that side face-down and then lacquer all 5 remaining exposed sides at once and let them dry while the stone remains face-down. Your pic seems to show this is not how you do it. Do you see a problem with how I was planning to do this?

 

[tgfencer]

Hi Otto,

Nice pic of those stones all lined up!

Quick question - I'm about to do some sealing of a group of stones soon but have never done this before. My thinking was that I should use painter's tape to cover the sharpening surface, put that side face-down and then lacquer all 5 remaining exposed sides at once and let them dry while the stone remains face-down. Your pic seems to show this is not how you do it. Do you see a problem with how I was planning to do this?

I do it that way, you should be fine. The only thing to pay attention to is that if you don't seal the painters tape well on the top edge of the sides, it can run under the tape and onto the surface. If that happens, you can just lap it off.

 

[Badgertooth]

Hi Otto,

Nice pic of those stones all lined up!

Quick question - I'm about to do some sealing of a group of stones soon but have never done this before. My thinking was that I should use painter's tape to cover the sharpening surface, put that side face-down and then lacquer all 5 remaining exposed sides at once and let them dry while the stone remains face-down. Your pic seems to show this is not how you do it. Do you see a problem with how I was planning to do this?

That's exactly how I used to do it but too often it resulted in some seepage onto that face. So instead I have a little sample pot of paint that is low and about 60mm in diameter. I place a stone face up on the top of the can and lacquer the sides so that any drippage goes towards the bottom of the stone. When the sides are dry I flip it face down and lacquer the bottom.

Those all racked up had already been sealed but I though an extra layer on the sides couldn't hurt. I only have one little podium pot so my next best bet was to turn 'em sideways. Paint 3 sides then flip and paint the fourth later

 

[tgfencer]

That's a good idea Otto, I like it.

 

[aboynamedsuita]

Hi Otto,

Nice pic of those stones all lined up!

Quick question - I'm about to do some sealing of a group of stones soon but have never done this before. My thinking was that I should use painter's tape to cover the sharpening surface, put that side face-down and then lacquer all 5 remaining exposed sides at once and let them dry while the stone remains face-down. Your pic seems to show this is not how you do it. Do you see a problem with how I was planning to do this?

Blue painters tape on the surface is a good idea, I made the mistake of not using it for one round and the time to lap it out with an Atoma is not fun. Some are not perfectly flat (and don't need to be) so I ended up using a small piece of suita like a fingerstone to get it out of the low spots.

I held my stones on the top and bottom while wearing nitrile gloves and did the four sides (not fun for large & heavy stones), then gently placed the taped side on a black horticultural tray (it has raised grooves) and lacquered the bottom. Used another inverted tray as a lid.

I take it you're gonna do Cashew as well ... one suggestion is to make sure you keep the turpentine handy as it will thicken up especially if doing multiple stones and since you waited until it's warmer (I did mine in winter and I had the thermostat down, also helps save brain cells from VOCs lol).

 

[Anton]

Blue painters tape on the surface is a good idea, I made the mistake of not using it for one round and the time to lap it out with an Atoma is not fun. Some are not perfectly flat (and don't need to be) so I ended up using a small piece of suita like a fingerstone to get it out of the low spots.

I held my stones on the top and bottom while wearing nitrile gloves and did the four sides (not fun for large & heavy stones), then gently placed the taped side on a black horticultural tray (it has raised grooves) and lacquered the bottom. Used another inverted tray as a lid.

I take it you're gonna do Cashew as well ... one suggestion is to make sure you keep the turpentine handy as it will thicken up especially if doing multiple stones and since you waited until it's warmer (I did mine in winter and I had the thermostat down, also helps save brain cells from VOCs lol).

Did you add turpentine just to get back to original viscosity? A few drops I imagine?

 

[aboynamedsuita]

Did you add turpentine just to get back to original viscosity? A few drops I imagine?

I used the neo-clear (#48 IIRC) Cashew and it is too thick even right out of the jar. I thinned it the most for the first coat, and also for the subsequent, then added a few drops are required.

I basically followed this video (same turpentine too), except I didn't always filter through cheesecloth until I was part way through the jar because it started to get lumpy bits after awhile.
[video=youtube;fKeRRZcXNIs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKeRRZcXNIs[/video]

I'm no expert with this jnat thing, so hopefully others can chime in too.

 

[brooksie967]

Do I have to listening to obnoxious music the whole time???

 

[BlueSteel]

That's exactly how I used to do it but too often it resulted in some seepage onto that face. So instead I have a little sample pot of paint that is low and about 60mm in diameter. I place a stone face up on the top of the can and lacquer the sides so that any drippage goes towards the bottom of the stone. When the sides are dry I flip it face down and lacquer the bottom.

Those all racked up had already been sealed but I though an extra layer on the sides couldn't hurt. I only have one little podium pot so my next best bet was to turn 'em sideways. Paint 3 sides then flip and paint the fourth later

Thanks for this idea!!!

Cheers,
Blair

 

[BlueSteel]

Blue painters tape on the surface is a good idea, I made the mistake of not using it for one round and the time to lap it out with an Atoma is not fun. Some are not perfectly flat (and don't need to be) so I ended up using a small piece of suita like a fingerstone to get it out of the low spots.

I held my stones on the top and bottom while wearing nitrile gloves and did the four sides (not fun for large & heavy stones), then gently placed the taped side on a black horticultural tray (it has raised grooves) and lacquered the bottom. Used another inverted tray as a lid.

I take it you're gonna do Cashew as well ... one suggestion is to make sure you keep the turpentine handy as it will thicken up especially if doing multiple stones and since you waited until it's warmer (I did mine in winter and I had the thermostat down, also helps save brain cells from VOCs lol).

Indeed - the cashew is finally going into use soon!!! Thanks for your idea about your method also, and the turpentine tip!

Cheers,
Blair

 

[Krassi]

Hiho!

something new from jnat-country

A Nakayama Iromono Namazu pre finisher on a laquered wooden base.

The stone is extremely fast and removes scratches from Aoto and Medium Grit stuff (that was the description and i tested it successfully in my office with a solingen standard sausage steel knife)
Ill check it at home with some real knifes and diamondplate slurry.

I love the color.. its beige/red and it has tons of red dots.
The stone is easy to use and not to hard, drinks a lot of water first and is super fast. Surface is perfectly plain and without any holes or disturbing line.. love it !

seeya Daniel!

 

[Badgertooth]

A beauty

 

[Krassi]

hiho!

New stuff coming

195x74x24mm Nakayama Suita
218x103x23mm Nakayama Awesedo Asag
202x79x37mm Nakayama Suita


Got this one today from customs.
Very hard but easy to use Wakasa Awesedo, made a scary sharp edge on a nakiri.
210x82x27mm

Seeya Daniel

 

[tgfencer]

How are those nakayama suitas? One of those beauties is top of my jnat list while I'm in Japan.

 

[Badgertooth]

I can't speak for Daniel's but the one I sold to Zweber thinking I could replace it, haunts me. I did actually eventually replace it and it's one I haven't written up because it would just be a hyperbole-driven fluff piece.

Second from top right

 

[Badgertooth]

hiho!

New stuff coming

195x74x24mm Nakayama Suita
218x103x23mm Nakayama Awesedo Asag
202x79x37mm Nakayama Suita


Got this one today from customs.
Very hard but easy to use Wakasa Awesedo, made a scary sharp edge on a nakiri.
210x82x27mm

Seeya Daniel

These look great Daniel.