First one

This one will be my first post i have started this blog because sometimes when i test stones i dustcover new thinks that i will forget very quick and forget to writ it on my website. Some of info i am not sure that is true so i can not write it as reliable information on natural stones so it is better i write it in blog.

One example is today when i got very big and nice Ozuko suita.
When i started to test it it was very clear that it was softer ozuko. But can it be very fine and soft at same time ??
That is my biggest mystery. I know for sure that natural stones can be very hard and coarse but soft and very fine i have not discover yet .
I return to that Ozuko  I tested it first on knife slurry came very easy and feeling was very smooth  i looked at the finish and it was finer then i was expecting from that feeling and softness. So i needed to test it on razor  i took one of my traditional japanes razors and started to sharpen slurry came very quick feeling was ok not super smooth like very hard ozukos has.
I took microscope and started to experiment with that se how big scratch patterns is with hard ozuko and soft one i was piety sure that soft one will be similar scratch patterns then hard ozukos. But it was not the case hard ozukos was just finer, a lot finer.
But still this soft ozuko was finer and harder then any Iwasaki Nakayamas that i had tryout.

Here are some pics witch stone i talk about :)