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I'll Try to Add More Photos This Time
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My old Skechers are ashamed!
I'll happily hone a blade up of you'd like to try again. A well honed blade should leave you really smooth after an ATG pass.
On my list. I planned to do a group photo in 1 week when my other two stones come in.
Well I guess for now it can't hurt. The photo is missing a hybrid coti that's at work. Sorted by coti, jnat, and thuri.
Nice collection of rocks. Jnats come in such a variety I don’t think I would know one when I see one unless I was told what it was first. I have a smallish stone that was listed for sale as a possible Thuringian but I have no way to confirm absolutely that is indeed an actual branded thurnigian or even the same type but u branded. It was found at an estate along side a labeled stone and had the same appearance so the assumption was made. I picked up the well worn stone for a song so it was a good gamble ...comparing mY stone to yours only confirms mine looks similar. Mine has long lost its square shape but has a similar color and grain.
Catching up Derek nice reads and rocks luckily I have not tripped down that rabbit hole, the coti and arks, along with the Shapton have been good to me, LOL
Naa, I thought the same about Fountain pens, stopped at two, rocks is the same way the Coti Ark works so well, that I am happy, besides you know all my other AD's Str8's, Soaps, brushes, watches, motocycles, cars, ducks, chickens, dragons.. I have enough LOL
I could always fan the flames of another one of your previous addictions...pool cues.
Rats I forgot that one, but it is like an inactive volcano I hope, LOL
Thanks all! The other two already got here from Japan. Working on finishing lapping them and I'll post the final group. I did get to try the lather coti edge and while much improved, ATG showed that it wasn't quite there. I've gone back and tried to lap the coti with another coti to improve the surface for finishing, but its so hard I think I need to use a thuri instead. A random aside, but the HHT improved magically over a 36 hour period and I have no idea how.
This morning's shave will be a more typical coti stone to compare. This edge seems like HHT 1/2 so we'll see if its really shaveable.
If you've got a spare ark sitting around, I've got a really nice finisher/tomo ? I wouldn't mind trading for a bit to try an ark out, if you're jonesing for a bit of the jnat magic.
This morning's shave will be a more typical coti stone to compare. This edge seems like HHT 1/2 so we'll see if its really shaveable.
If you've got a spare ark sitting around, I've got a really nice finisher/tomo ? I wouldn't mind trading for a bit to try an ark out, if you're jonesing for a bit of the jnat magic.
New karasu
Didn't snap the little guy with the yaku? sun pattern. I did lap the little guy and hone with it. Edge ended up being HHT 4/5 with the root in! Not bad for a stone that might not be fully lapped, using a mystery tomo, and with an Atoms 400 surface finish.
I additionally shaved with my ERN Crown and Sword that had an Ardennes coti finish. Much better than my mystery LL coti, but still less than the jnat.
Didn't snap the little guy with the yaku? sun pattern. I did lap the little guy and hone with it. Edge ended up being HHT 4/5 with the root in! Not bad for a stone that might not be fully lapped, using a mystery tomo, and with an Atoms 400 surface finish.
I additionally shaved with my ERN Crown and Sword that had an Ardennes coti finish. Much better than my mystery LL coti, but still less than the jnat.
So many stones in this thread. I had no idea this was a rabbit hole.