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First, I want to say that my primary intention isn't to detract Maxim and his products, I have a couple from him and was generally really satisfied with them...until now, I have bought 2 JNATS from him recently, an Aiiwatani Kiita Koppa for about 150 $ and an Ohira Suita for about 550 $...and neither of them was flat (both of them relatively distinctly convex), here is the link to a gallery of the Aiiwatani including some photos from the flattening process (it took about almost one hour of work with Atoma 140, most time being spent with cleaning the stone from the mud and washing the mud out of the Atoma, the flattening itself took maybe 10 minutes)...And, by the way - the beautiful basis for the stone, made from a piece of plum wood (unfortunately I hit it already a bit on some spots with my Atoma during the flattening), is a work of Matus, thanks again for the great work!
OK, in case of the Aiiwatani which was relatively cheap, I would say "OK" normally, thinking that it my happen...but in case of an 500 $+ Ohira Suita which, moreover, was relatively narrow, only 20 mm (so the first thing one wants to do it with it is certainly not an Atoma massage), I think that to get a perfectly flat stone is a "must"...particularly from somebody whose company has the name JapaneseNaturalStones...
I am curious to hear about your experience with the flatness of JNATS, do things like that happen more often or is this just an accident?! I should mention that I have got two stones from Shinichi Watanabe as well and both of them are perfectly flat, so no problem in this case...
OK, in case of the Aiiwatani which was relatively cheap, I would say "OK" normally, thinking that it my happen...but in case of an 500 $+ Ohira Suita which, moreover, was relatively narrow, only 20 mm (so the first thing one wants to do it with it is certainly not an Atoma massage), I think that to get a perfectly flat stone is a "must"...particularly from somebody whose company has the name JapaneseNaturalStones...
I am curious to hear about your experience with the flatness of JNATS, do things like that happen more often or is this just an accident?! I should mention that I have got two stones from Shinichi Watanabe as well and both of them are perfectly flat, so no problem in this case...