OKUDO

INTERPRETATION OF THE STONE

This Okudo Suita is a fascinating stone with incredible cutting speed, producing black swarf with a couple of passes as well as being a very fine stone that is easy to use for both sharpening and polishing.

From looking at the detail that covers the stone face you'd be surprised at how smooth and uniform the sharpening experience is of this stone. Though the stone can be used for sharpening any type of carbon steel kitchen knife I found that it excels in sharpening single bevel knives as well as Japanese Kanna or wood plane.

It's large surface lends itself to a very pure natural stone, sharpening experience. I have used this stone a lot, testing many types of kitchen knives from all over Japan, as well as as many types of steel forging styles, both tools and kitchen knives, a very versatile stone that if you needed only one natural stone in your collection, this could be the one.