All prices included CONUS shipping. Cash is king, but will entertain trade offers for Yanick, Halcyon Forge, Milan, the 9 or high-end non-honyaki Japanese gyuto. Also looking for a nice Okudo shiro suita or other Marukas. Unfortunately won't be able to ship until after Christmas due to travel. Happy to do combo deals as well. I have another thread open with a kanna and another with several natsuya. Can ship any and all stones with some finger stone stock on request. Also have some tomo nagura available that we can match to a stone.
1. Ohira Uchigumori, 180x63x37 - $360
Very soft, lines on surface are no issue at all. Forgiving grain size. One toxic line running on the very very bottom surface. If you make it that far in your lifetime - congratulations - you use your stones a helluva lot! Great kasumi, about as point and shoot as polishers come. Can’t even feel the lines on the surface. I think further down there will be more renge and lots of namazu.
2. Ohira Uchigumori, 207x75x30 - $390 $340
Little finer and harder than above, but not by much. Both sides are gorgeous and useful! Nice Karasu on one side with some namazu and classic uchi on the other. Non of the lines are toxic to my use.
3. Monster suita, 223x82x93 - $520
No mine pedigree here, but boy oh boy is it big and fun. On the harder and finer side things. Did I mention its big?! Immensely stable (because its big and heavy). Weighs more than my 4kg scale at home can handle. Not soft, but very usable and quite fine.
4. Karasu suita 205x76x51 - $330
Again, no mine info for this one. You can feel some of the lines but I’ve had no scratching off it at all. Feels softer and nicer than the suita above, I'd call it 4-. Nice fine finish. Good fine edges too.
5. Asagi 206x78x44 -$295 $250
This is about as hard and fine as I'd recommend as far as polishers go. It can feel a bit sticky, but is capable of taking core up to a mirror and makes details in clad pop. Very clean all the way through. Also makes a pretty solid tool and razor stone. Good for very refined edges or uraoshi work.
6. Maruka mizu asagi, 205x72x32 - $875
Torn on selling this one. On the one hand, its beyond the pale in terms of usability for polishing. You have to be an utter psychopath to want to polish on something this hard and fine. But... unlike other stones this hard and fine it will actually do it if you are precise and patient. The polish it leaves is unbelievably detailed - it pulls out banding on every knife I've thrown at it. The Takeda in the picture has not patina and the core is actually mirrored, but in the right light you see unbelievable grain structure. And for as detailed as it is, there is somehow still good contrast. That said, it's probably more stone than I need for this purpose so if someone else wants it for razor honing or tools, I'd see it go.
5. Asagi 206x78x44 -
This is about as hard and fine as I'd recommend as far as polishers go. It can feel a bit sticky, but is capable of taking core up to a mirror and makes details in clad pop. Very clean all the way through. Also makes a pretty solid tool and razor stone. Good for very refined edges or uraoshi work.
6. Maruka mizu asagi, 205x72x32 - $875
Torn on selling this one. On the one hand, its beyond the pale in terms of usability for polishing. You have to be an utter psychopath to want to polish on something this hard and fine. But... unlike other stones this hard and fine it will actually do it if you are precise and patient. The polish it leaves is unbelievably detailed - it pulls out banding on every knife I've thrown at it. The Takeda in the picture has not patina and the core is actually mirrored, but in the right light you see unbelievable grain structure. And for as detailed as it is, there is somehow still good contrast. That said, it's probably more stone than I need for this purpose so if someone else wants it for razor honing or tools, I'd see it go.
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