Badgertooth
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Christmas present to self and solace after selling so many.
I'd read that these are on the easier end of the Suita spectrum for knives and decided to give it a go. I was also getting real pattern envy seeing all the amazing swirls, fingerprints and suminagashi type patterns that Shinichi was selling to @tgfencer @ynot1985 @aboynamedsuita (how apt) and @foody518
I managed to find one that ticked a few boxes aesthetically. It's a bone coloured stone with black suminagashi swirls juxtaposed against vivid yellow concentric ripples radiating out from the left of the stone:
As usual, I'm hoping someone will be able to help out with the kanji. Some are very faded and the stone has been restamped including the Kyoto stone association stamp.
These more faded ones may be tricky
I was gifted three very nice nagura- an ungraded piece of koma; a Tsushima; and a tomo, but in honesty it doesn't need them. As the video below will show, it gets going pretty quickly on its own.
In sharpening, it's softer than other Suita I have tried and very different in sensation and feedback to Okudo and different again to Ohira. It's the muddiest Suita I've tried but not a muddy stone by any means. Incredibly user friendly and pretty easy going on cladding without faceting or notable streaking. It feels less fine in usage than other Suita but the resultant edge on a Toyama I was sharpening is whistle clean, cleaner and more polished than I associate with Suita. It feels "right" on white steel with high heat treats, namely a Teruyasu Fujiwara Maboroshi and an original Kato, producing that heady Suita mix of keenness and agression or bite. A surprise to me was when I lazily chucked on a Tanaka ginsanko for a touch up and it produced the most bitey edge I've ever achieved on that knife. It's the most pronounced difference I've felt across different steels with one stone.
https://youtu.be/LX3j_EtcM0g
The shot of the Toyama at the end of the video is not straight off the stone, its with a little homemade fingerstone action and a little silicone carbide clean up and blend attempt. Not quite an Ittetsu yet
I'd read that these are on the easier end of the Suita spectrum for knives and decided to give it a go. I was also getting real pattern envy seeing all the amazing swirls, fingerprints and suminagashi type patterns that Shinichi was selling to @tgfencer @ynot1985 @aboynamedsuita (how apt) and @foody518
I managed to find one that ticked a few boxes aesthetically. It's a bone coloured stone with black suminagashi swirls juxtaposed against vivid yellow concentric ripples radiating out from the left of the stone:
As usual, I'm hoping someone will be able to help out with the kanji. Some are very faded and the stone has been restamped including the Kyoto stone association stamp.
These more faded ones may be tricky
I was gifted three very nice nagura- an ungraded piece of koma; a Tsushima; and a tomo, but in honesty it doesn't need them. As the video below will show, it gets going pretty quickly on its own.
In sharpening, it's softer than other Suita I have tried and very different in sensation and feedback to Okudo and different again to Ohira. It's the muddiest Suita I've tried but not a muddy stone by any means. Incredibly user friendly and pretty easy going on cladding without faceting or notable streaking. It feels less fine in usage than other Suita but the resultant edge on a Toyama I was sharpening is whistle clean, cleaner and more polished than I associate with Suita. It feels "right" on white steel with high heat treats, namely a Teruyasu Fujiwara Maboroshi and an original Kato, producing that heady Suita mix of keenness and agression or bite. A surprise to me was when I lazily chucked on a Tanaka ginsanko for a touch up and it produced the most bitey edge I've ever achieved on that knife. It's the most pronounced difference I've felt across different steels with one stone.
https://youtu.be/LX3j_EtcM0g
The shot of the Toyama at the end of the video is not straight off the stone, its with a little homemade fingerstone action and a little silicone carbide clean up and blend attempt. Not quite an Ittetsu yet
