PalmRoyale
Senior Member
I'd like to trade my mystery stone for a nice suita on the harder side of medium hard and preferably about the same size. Something that requires a slurry to really get going and is fairly dish resistant. Maybe some like a light coloured Ohira or Okudo.
I have absolutely no idea what mine or layer this stone is from but I suspect most of it is senmai suita. The bottom of the stone has a slightly coarser layer, it's about 4mm thick and behaves like a typical soft tomae in the 6k-8k range. Senmai is a shallow suita layer just above tomae so the composition of the stone makes a lot of sense. The thin tomae layer is really nothing special and when I sealed the sides and bottom I put epoxy resin on the bottom to give the stone some extra stability. The senmai layer, which originally was the bottom, is 22mm thick and on the softer side, I would say in the HS36-HS40 range. It rapidly releases a very fine and fast mud that finishes in the 8k-10k range and it produces a wonderful kasumi finish. The mud is super slick and lets a blade glide over the stone but there's still plenty of feedback. The nice thing about this stone is that it responds very well to how much water and pressure you use. With a minimal amount of water you can coax a lot of mud from it and you just keep adding water to finish on a light mud.
I have absolutely no idea what mine or layer this stone is from but I suspect most of it is senmai suita. The bottom of the stone has a slightly coarser layer, it's about 4mm thick and behaves like a typical soft tomae in the 6k-8k range. Senmai is a shallow suita layer just above tomae so the composition of the stone makes a lot of sense. The thin tomae layer is really nothing special and when I sealed the sides and bottom I put epoxy resin on the bottom to give the stone some extra stability. The senmai layer, which originally was the bottom, is 22mm thick and on the softer side, I would say in the HS36-HS40 range. It rapidly releases a very fine and fast mud that finishes in the 8k-10k range and it produces a wonderful kasumi finish. The mud is super slick and lets a blade glide over the stone but there's still plenty of feedback. The nice thing about this stone is that it responds very well to how much water and pressure you use. With a minimal amount of water you can coax a lot of mud from it and you just keep adding water to finish on a light mud.
