J-Nat Club
- Thread starter maxim
- Start date
Help Support Kitchen Knife Forums:
BillHanna
Gotta get ready for ARM
a few
I know they breed like rabbits. Started with straight razors and been collecting for years. I have some more Jnats plus a whole European collection too.
How is the knife? Does it have kanji in the other side too? Thanks
The Anryu Bunka was my first Japanese knife some years ago I also got the petty knife. Excellent knife no kanji on the other side.
Thanks. I got hold of a petty, not damascus, and it is a great little knife.
Was sold a trash natsuya before, now trying this superior natsuya really changes my mind about natsuya
Put a mask on the old one and get rid of it!
The old mined ones are completely different than the new stuff. Playing with a diamond plate slurry on it vs under dripping water with light pressure to burnish is worthwhile. Glad you’re enjoying it!
- Joined
- Jul 4, 2012
- Messages
- 1,937
- Reaction score
- 3,559
I picked up one of @ethompson's Natsuya stones as well; now I just have to find the time to put it to use.
I can't imagine why I needed a second Natsuya, I already have one that has an important role in my life:
I can't imagine why I needed a second Natsuya, I already have one that has an important role in my life:
I have a 2.3 kg stone in case you want to back your stone up
Froztitanz
Well-Known Member
Hi, please stop posting photos of the hand sawn ohira suita it makes me feel inferior and keeps me up at night. Thanks in advance!
Porn.
Happy New Stone = Happy New Year
I’ll read you a story
Last edited:
Froztitanz
Well-Known Member
Wabisabi-Ken
Well-Known Member
Really enjoying these stones from umajiyama. The fellow I bought two from in Kyoto said they were quite rare. The bigger one is quite difficult to get a nice photo of, in person the marooney purple is more prominent than the light brown. These stones are really nice to work with, quite soft for their fineness and cuts quite fast with no need for DMT slurry. The big one is the softest and will raise mud on its own yet doesn't leave any scratches on the cladding. The smaller two are even finer but harder yet still easy to use and leave a nice contrasty yet shiny finish.
Attachments
Nice mail day today. Most are returning home, but they brought some new friends along.
Wabisabi-Ken
Well-Known Member
New kid on the block. This is a pretty interesting stone. Feels super soft with a worn out atoma. But when testing with kiridashi feels reasonably hard. Does not release mud and cuts very fast.
spaceconvoy
Senior Member
I got this binsui from ikkyu about a month ago. I really like it, it's blazing fast with a nice toothy edge, finer than my ikarashi by a little bit. Fastest natural I own, seems as fast as a synthetic 2000 but that might be some slightly wishful thinking. I'm not a polisher so can't comment on that
( @Ethan )
Wabisabi-Ken
Well-Known Member
Hey team not sure if this is the right place to ask or not. But has anyone experience with buying from Watanabe from Watanabe blade? I'm actually interested in a stone from him for razors, thing I'm curious about is how he gets his measurements of fineness, I mean he states down to the micron and 3 decimal points his writing is quite fantastical also. Is he just plucking these numbers from the heavens? Has anyone purchased from him and thought his evaluation is right on?
Here's a jnat pic just because
his writing is quite fantastical also. Is he just plucking these numbers from the heavens? Has anyone purchased from him and thought his evaluation is right on? Here's a jnat pic just because
nice
I've bought a few things from him. In general his descriptions are accurate, he takes time to answer questions, and you can pretty expect to receive what you're envisioning in terms of performance. He has some gauge setup he uses to record his hardness and fineness measurements. I honestly don't pay overmuch attention to them, especially for finishers as a lot more goes into how the stone feels and performs than his assigned metrics. Can be used to compare relative hardness and fineness of two stones of the same type though. I've never been disappointed by a stone I bought from him.Hey team not sure if this is the right place to ask or not. But has anyone experience with buying from Watanabe from Watanabe blade? I'm actually interested in a stone from him for razors, thing I'm curious about is how he gets his measurements of fineness, I mean he states down to the micron and 3 decimal points
Here's a jnat pic just because View attachment 221873
- Joined
- Aug 29, 2018
- Messages
- 2,088
- Reaction score
- 4,272
Some stones don’t make it home before I unwrap them. Hand-sawn Okudo renge suita. Initial testing tells me this may be the new king of the castle.
Last edited:
user 16756
Senior Member
- Joined
- Feb 5, 2015
- Messages
- 2,645
- Reaction score
- 3,940
