some recent acquisitions:
Maruoyama Ao Suita - this one is darker in color than my other one and noticeably harder. My understanding is this is a more typical example. With namazu and a little bit of red renge. Cool stone, but I seem to like anything Maruoyama
Okudo Kuro Renge - I wanted this to compare to my Ohira Ao Renge because I saw one of our post on IG about them and how they compared to those. Just a super quick test on this one so far confirmed it is pretty fast and pretty hard. Ive been enjoying stones like this more recently but they are certainly not as easy to use as some softer stones
"Suita" - this is the mystery stone. This is a dead ringer for a Nakayama suita I have from color, hardness and even the skin. That's obviously not enough to say. This one isnt quite as fast and the renge, though kind of hard to see here, is more plentiful. The only descriptions I had for this one were the size/weight, a few bad pictures, a claim it was a suita (which does check out) and the comment that the color was "beige, like cardboard", which is pretty lol. anyway this stone was so cheap it was basically free so Im not gonna complain. this is just hard enough to be a razer stone, but just soft enough to polish knives.
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