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Fingerstones and a Halcyon Forge Wrought Iron cladding. No idea what the exact FS are as they were gifted to me by @soigne_west . An almost black bit from a variegated grey stone did the trick, almost magically giving instant contrast. The tan and grey ones I tried accentuated the patterns but not much contrast. Please excuse all my technical terms 😜
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@CiderBear The highlights of their recommendations
Rhynowet sandpaper is the best
DONT progress to the next sandpaper grit until all scratches from previous grit are gone. Those last few stray deeper scratches won’t go away as you progress (and will often look worse)
Finish up at 800 grit for Kasumi
Add a little baking soda to your fingerstone water it will prevent rust/stains as you’re working. I like a short presoak to soften the FS a bit.
Be patient , use very little pressure until you get a little slurry going
If you’re getting scratches you’re using too much pressure or have a bad FS
Polish heel to tip
Once you have nice kasumi going with plenty of slurry, use a piece of hard felt as a fingerstone to even out the finish
A small piece of felt and diamond emulsion does a good job of polishing the core steel
 
Some WIP photos of this enormous 270 Wat that I had reground and profiled. It still need an hour or so of work on a lower grit stone to finish off the bevels. so far very pleased. The knife is full of banding which showing like crazy already after a quick polish on a soft Aizu
 

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This is the best I could do with my tanba aoto. It has a few toxic lines I had to dig out, and it sometimes releases a stray particle or two. With that being said the results with very light pressure aren't all that terrible.
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Hey I finally found out how to put text after an image. Woooh!
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This is the same knife (210 tojiro shiro 2 gyuto) after I polished it on my asagi with a few nagura slurries.
1. Some kind of white nagura. wasn't stamped. Definitely the coarsest of the three.
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2. This one is sort of tan-yellow (duh) have no idea what it might be. Very fine, with a smooth finish. This is my favorite of the naguras I have.
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3. An asagi tomo nagura. It's very fine. However I dont use it often because it somehow tends to release some larger particles, or clumps of particles. Very annoying when polishing.
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4. The asagi with diamond plate slurry. Smooth fine finish. Dont know what else to say here.
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5. The asagi with clear water. This is where the stone really shows off how fine it is. It's also a testament to how much I suck at photography, and how bad my phone camera is.
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I thought I would post this this pic I took a while back of my tojiro shiro 2 "feather" santoku. Believe it or not that mirror finish on the bottom is actually from a king 4000, then I used a little piece of an asagi tomo nagura as a makeshift fingerstone. It came out pretty well actually.
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First attempt at any sort of polishing. Plenty of work to be done with lowspots and deep scratches but it's starting to look pretty nice to me. Pretty much a mirror finish at the core but still some contrast on the soft stainless. Two photos to try and show the different look depending on angles and lighting.

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4wa1l said:
First attempt at any sort of polishing. Plenty of work to be done with lowspots and deep scratches but it's starting to look pretty nice to me. Pretty much a mirror finish at the core but still some contrast on the soft stainless. Two photos to try and show the different look depending on angles and lighting.

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Very nice! Especially considering it's your first attempt.
 
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First attempt at any sort of polishing. Plenty of work to be done with lowspots and deep scratches but it's starting to look pretty nice to me. Pretty much a mirror finish at the core but still some contrast on the soft stainless. Two photos to try and show the different look depending on angles and lighting.

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What stones did you polish it with?
 
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Very nice! Especially considering it's your first attempt.
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Thanks! Honestly the pics make it looks much much better than it is. I also picked the best section. Not so nice near the heel.

I used a Morihei 500, Chosera 800, 3000 then Kitayama 8000. I also have some small uchigomori fingerstones and made a bit of a paste with a tiny fragment and the remaining kitayama mud. Rubbed that mainly on the cladding with a rag. It seemed to smooth out some of the scratches. The rag has a tonne of mud from previous sessions so who knows what's on it now. Probably a mix of mud from all my stones.
 
4wa1l said:
Thanks! Honestly the pics make it looks much much better than it is. I also picked the best section. Not so nice near the heel.

I used a Morihei 500, Chosera 800, 3000 then Kitayama 8000. I also have some small uchigomori fingerstones and made a bit of a paste with a tiny fragment and the remaining kitayama mud. Rubbed that mainly on the cladding with a rag. It seemed to smooth out some of the scratches. The rag has a tonne of mud from previous sessions so who knows what's on it now. Probably a mix of mud from all my stones.
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Nice. Maybe a muddier finisher would yield you even better results. Something like the suehiro rika 5k, or something along those lines. I know my kitayama can be a little inconsistent as far as grit size goes. Maybe it's just mine that has this problem.
 
jwthaparc said:
Nice. Maybe a muddier finisher would yield you even better results. Something like the suehiro rika 5k, or something along those lines. I know my kitayama can be a little inconsistent as far as grit size goes. Maybe it's just mine that has this problem.
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I've got a little aiiwatani koppa on the way. Pretty excited to see what I can manage with a jnat!
 
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