SOLD Nakayama Kiita Tomae

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visited Tsuchihashi-san (Totoriya) a while back, asked for Kiita for kitchen knives and picked these out of ~20 stones I was offered.

Very clean, high performance, premium pieces that do exactly what some of my ~$2000-2500 stones do, at the same cutting speed.

Selling exactly for this reason - too many stones that do same thing, so selling duplicates and keeping the museum-grade square bricks only for collectability.

Logistics

• In your DM, please share everything you wanted to ascertain before purchasing. Helps both parties save some time from going back and forth
• Selling basically for the price I got them for.
• Shipping and payment fees covered.
• Payment via PayPal / venmo / bank transfer are all fine. Shipping is covered (costs me ~$50 to ship to CONUS, and $70 to EU/Aus)
• Shipping out of Beijing arrives in most countries in a week, occasionally takes a few more days at the customs. I will share tracking for both legs.
• I've done quite a few transactions here, and my counterparties can back me up.

1. $850 - A kasumi machine with excellent contrast & detail. Extremely easy to use. Close you eyes, rub knife, and get perfect kasumi in minutes, as I did with that tiny surface area in 1 min (see vid).

• Condition: Stamp intact, only used a corner to test a kiridashi.
• hardness: lv. 3.5 , just the right hardness, soft enough to guarantee very reliable results, but hard enough to give a great edge & not dish fast; self slurries very well
• speed: lv. 4+ cuts very fast, as you can see with the swarth coming out immediately
• Size: 205 x 78 x 29 cm, 1095g
• Fineness:~7000 grit, Kasumi finish, finer than shown in the video / pic
  • The video was made in a rush and the bevel was not well prepared, so still some remaining scratches from rougher grits that I didn't have time to polish out with the prev. progression (e.g. the lower end of the bevel in the photos)
  • The kiridashi was new. I spent 40 mins preparing the bevel with Debado LD 180 - Morihei 500 - Naniwa 800 & 3000 - Tajima (3-4k) - Mikawa Nagura (5k), (as you can see, I was in a rush and used whatever stone I could find)
• Effect: Good contrast & great detail, reveals the grain of the steel very well (see pic), better than some of my high end suitas

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2. $850 - Semi mirror machine - very useful,versatile hardness that's great for the edge but also sufficiently accommodating for knives to get very reliable results. Good for tools too. Extremely fast.

• Condition: Stamp intact, exactly the same condition that I bought it in
• Size: 195x76x28 cm, 1033g
• hardness: lv. 4+ish?
• speed: lv. 4.5-5, cuts extremely fast, as you can see with the black swarth in the vid
• Fineness: 8-9000 grit, semi-mirror finish,
• Effect: Remember it having good contrast & details when I tried. Didn't take time to test & make a video, here was a video I took for Instagram when I visited Totoriya, happen to feature this stone, captures its amazing speed and you can see a glimpse of its effect here （bad lighting & angle though）
• I don't really want to sell this one, so not in a rush to test & make video. but if you buy #1 and want to add this as a pair, maybe we can discuss. Sorry still debating.