Show us your Japanese Natural Whetstones

Hi Gentlemen,

I´am new to this Forum, know it for long time but didn´t sign up.
Found by eccident my perfect finisher, it´s unbelieveable.
I bought it for my wood working tools, but it turned out as "the" stone for shaving.
For years I was fiddling around with coticule´s and thüringers, but wasn´t fully satisfied in most cases. So I had allways come back to my cromium strop to get an A1 shave and this was kind of boring.
Thought I would share it with you guys, as this thread is very interesting and should grow.
I´am shure it´s pretty obvious which kind of stone it is.
The name of the mine, under the name I bought it I will post later. It´s an uncommon and closed, it´s been said.

Greetings

Ruben

Rubin

That is a beautiful piece of Suita. Not all suita is fine enough for razors but with some good skill they can produce silky smooth edges.

Alex

Hi Alex,

strangley this suita is so fine that there is no way to use it for tools, maybe thats why the guy sold it to me, I don´t know.
When it arrived I tested it on a chisel and was disappointed, I was shure it will remove some metall quickly, but it didn´t.
I realized than that it leaves a finer surface than my nakayama kiita, I didn´t expect that at all.
So I tested it on one of my razors and voilà I had a new finisher I can shave off.
The renge is different from what I have seen so far, it´s so tight and forms some linear pattern.
If it´s from interest I can try to make better pictures.

Greetings

Ruben

Does it have su or is it suless (I couldn't resist).

No, it hasn´t.

Nice stone Rubinio, and welcome to B&B, Glad you finally joined!

Thank you David,

had to join, as I followed more and more in the past.
I said to my self I will not buy more razors, but I was wrong.
Thought the collection is complete and razors are too expensive now, but it proved otherwise.

Kawa:



Greetings

Ruben

Recently acquired Kiita that's going to meet up with a Joe Edson custom in a couple of minutes...

That is surely Top of the line Ruben. Love to find one of those. Kinda' fond of suita stones.

I needed a mate to go with my recently acquired killer Tenjyou Toishi. I was looking for the same quality level, which was an ambitious plan on my part for sure.
So, after some poking around, and some begging - this puppy shows up.
Ooooofff..... Mejiro with an identity crisis - it thinks it's Koma.

Now THAT is a sweet stone! Congrats Keith! You've gotta make a video of that one.

Thanks David - yah - this one might just make it into a video. Just noticed you're a Steward... congrats.

Gamma said:

Thanks David - yah - this one might just make it into a video. Just noticed you're a Steward... congrats.

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Thanks!

Rubinio said:

Thank you David,

had to join, as I followed more and more in the past.
I said to my self I will not buy more razors, but I was wrong.
Thought the collection is complete and razors are too expensive now, but it proved otherwise.

Kawa:

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Greetings

Ruben

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Hi and Welcome to B&B Ruben! Great loking stone, love that skin. I'd keep her out on my desk just to look at all the time. lol

Bad_B said:

Hi and Welcome to B&B Ruben! Great loking stone, love that skin. I'd keep her out on my desk just to look at all the time. lol

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Thank you Brain,

fortunately tastes are different for everyone, I find it more gross looking lol, like an old rotten crocdile.
I couldn´t catch it in the picture, cause of poor camere skills. In real it looks extreme rusty red/orange and burned black.

Cheers!

Very nice stones fellas.

Lots of nice porn lately.

Got this beauty last week, actually it was sold totally unbranded. Its a hard stone, i would rate it around Lv 4.5-5.0.

Its coloration moves from gray/green towards a greenwith yellowish notes..its an effective fast cutting and fine stone for finishing....

I do tend towards a Nakayama Asagi, so i kindly ask for any "interpretation" on this one.

It shows these typical white/yellowish lines on the back...

Nice koppa. Looks fast and fine. I think you're right.

Does the black skin in the 3rd photo sparkle in sunlight? That's the only definitive Nakayama indicator I know of.

Regardless, it looks like a winner.

Cheers, Steve