Travellers are back !!
This time even better quality and hardnes !
Super uniform Shoubudanis Asagi
Very clean and smooth for Razor users, perfect to take with you as traveller stone or even use it as Nagura on your big stones.
Very good for beginners to try hard stone without spending to much money !!
Approx sizes 160mm 55mm 25mm
Also we got very clean and very hard big Shoubudani Mizo Asagi
And Huge Atagoyama as ultimate finishing stone for Knife Sharpeners !
I was very curios about Thuri Y/G many say that they are the finest for razors .
I most admit that it is very fine and very good hone i love that very smooth feeling while honing.
Very genteel and fine stone super easy to use i feel like i cant make mistakes on it :)
The color of Y/G is very light that make it easier to se swarf from the razor but i feel like it is not faster then other Thuris.
So i made a little test :)
I took my favored razor J.A. Hellberg
Honed it on coticule then to Wakasa with a lot of slurry then washed Wakasa and did 60 laps just on water.
Then i switched to Thuri Y/G did 60 laps with slurry and 60 laps with water only
Here is microscope pictures of result
60X
200X
Then i took Wakasa again and did same 60 laps with slurry and 60 with water
Made pics again
60X
200X
Then after Wakasa i did Ozuku 60 laps with slurry and 60 with water
I got all my Hones that i wanted to test.
So time has come !
To call it test maybe is wrong, i just want to show sound, speed, smoothens, mud relies of these hones on video with scratch patterns of edge with microscope pictures.
This is not sharpness test !! And scratch patterns do not tell how good hone is and how is the shave from that hone, i will just like to give people an idea how these stones work.
So what i did that i made video of each stone honed with Kamisori Razor and Solingen western Razor
With mud and finished only with water with little pressure to give some scratch patterns from the stone. This is not how you hone a razor on this hones :)
You need to do it without pressure at all !
1. Coticule La Nouvelle
2. Coticule combo La Petite Blanche
3. Rozsutec
4. La Lune Special stone
5. Silkstone
6. Thuri y/g
7. Escher
8. Arkansas ?
9. Wakasa Kiita Jnat
10. Shoubudani Asagi Jnat
11. Greek or Turkish ?
12. Charnley Forest
13. Ozuku Karasu
All Microscope pictures was taken under same angle and same light 60x zoom.
Here is a start point from Norton 8000 grit
Kamisori
Solingen
1. Coticule La Nouvelle:
Coarse and slow coticule very soft i think it can be used only for pre-polishing !
Kamisori
Solingen
2. Coticule combo La Petite Blanche
Very nice coticule very smooth feeling and super fast it is extra hard like it shod be for razors this one is my favored !
Kamisori
Solingen
3. Rozsutec
Super hard stone and very slow i need to work more on that maybe it work better with oil Very nice stone for the money only 15 euro :) Arkansas like but harder
Kamisori
Solingen
4. La Lune Special stone
French razor hone with a lot of glittering very nice looking stone harder then Escher same bounding muddy clay like hone feels very nice and very fine too. Much faster then Escher
Kamisori
Solingen
5. Silkstone Razor hone
Look like slate but feeling and sharpening is not like slate :) More muddy softer and faster, finer then coticule.
Kamisori
Solingen
6. Thuringian y/g
Very nice feeling when sharpening like butter super fine hone fastest of Thuris in my collection but maybe because of light color :)
Kamisori
Solingen
7. Escher
Very dark Thurigian dark blue harder then Y/G maybe finer too very nice feeling wile sharpening
Kamisori
Solingen
8. Old Arkansas ?
Very nice pre-polisher become much faster with usage of oil
Kamisori
Solingen
9. Wakasa Kiita Jnat
Super fine stone harder then any western fast for a finisher
Kamisori
Solingen
10. Shoubudani Asagi Jnat
Very fine final finisher
Kamisori
Solingen
11. Greek or Turkish ?
Very hard stone hmm.. somehow it become coarse when used on kamisori i think it is bit transformer stone i use it with oil and it feel much better !
Kamisori
Solingen
12. Charnley Forest
I like that one a lot it is true finisher finest of all western naturals very hard and feels very smooth with oil i used it with water and oil and i decided to use it with oil only .
Kamisori
Solingen
13. Ozuku Karasu
That one is the fines and the best finisher of all much finer then any of my western and Jnats it will remain my final finisher stone :) Super smooth and very hard like a mirror slurry is super nice if you can get it out of it :)
Others is not even in comparison of fines of this one !! It is ultimate finisher for razors
On the pictures you can see that i did not worked enough on that stone it have deep scratches from other finishers.
So fare very fast cutting, slurry get black very easy, grit rate is the finest of all my Western Nats ! It is very hard stone glass like. But not harder then Arkansas or Turkish but very close !
That little stone wight 450 g.
size: 175mm 40mm 19mm
