These are the natural stones I have tested on tools: chisels, plane blades and other woodworking steel. For tools you usually want a hard stone with a clean flat surface and no lines, and that is what I put in here.
Each stone has its own description with relative hardness and best use. If there are toxic lines or inclusions I write it. If nothing is written, there are none.
Naguras and flattening stones are in Finger Stones and Naguras. If you are not sure which stone fits your tools, email me before you buy.
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Big Ikarashi Flat
$223,20Medium grit stone from Niigata, Sanjo I have tested this stone for some time now and i think it is very good 1000 -2000 stone ! Very fast for natural and feels very good, it have super feedback that... -
Oohira Lv 3 (a3304)
$686,78Old stock Ohira Fast and medium hardness stone quite easy to use feels very smooth and make some black very fast Can be used with or without Nagura and make clear Kasumi finish No Toxic lines... -
Nakayama Maruichi Kamisori Lv 5 (a3158)
$1.116,02Super beautiful Nakayama from Maruichi Very Hard and super smooth stone ! Without any toxic Lines or inclusions at all ! Final finisher for Kamisori and Razors ! It is very difficult to find... -
Brown Saeki (a3034)
$429,24This Saeki stone i picked up my self in Japan ! Brown Saeki without any toxic inclusions at all and very uniform Make super nice hazy finish and very easy to use ! Medium hardens but give Very... -
Tsushima Nagura medium
$171,70Thinner Version of Big Tsushima Nagura !Very good stone as Aoto specially for Razors and Tools but can also be used for knives.Tsushima Naguras is very clean stones, so no inclusions or lines you... -
Amakusa
$111,60Very coarse Natural stone that works best with Cladded knives but can also be used on mono steel as it get bur very quickly aprox. 400-600 grit Coarse natural Stones scratch patterns is much easier... -
Suisa Omura
$248,96I tested this one quite some time. And i really like it I am always skeptical to coarse Japanese Natural stones But this one i do really like and use a lot now. It is splash and go so don't need... -
Tsushima Nagura
$60,09Tsushima Nagura For razors or for knives very nice big Nagura about 6-8 k It is sealed and ready for use produce very nice light gray slurry

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