{"product_id":"260801-ohirasuita3","title":"OHIRA SUITA","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINTERPRETATION OF THE STONE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSimilar to \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/komonjapan.com\/products\/260801-ohirasuita2\"\u003eOhira Suita 2\u003c\/a\u003e this was another dense stone in the group of three in this recent batch, Strong cutting speed, polishing power, produces its own mud easily and has a fluid, smooth feeling under the blade across the entire stone. Having a light pattern across the stone that was not felt durable polishing but aided in edge sharpening. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA medium hard stone a bit on the finer side . The stone quickly forms a dark grey mud easily with great feeling and ease of use. The mud has a silky texture that gave a fluidity to each pass. I started the stone off with a surface texture from a 600 atoma but I found any finer or polished surface could work depending on the desired stage in polishing such as shiro nagura or Kuro nagura. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne technique I found worked best with this type of stone was to use very litter on the stone and bring up a mud with pressure on the soft iron, then instead of adding water to the stone when needed add a bit of water to the blade just to lightly wet it. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWorking well across all types of carbon steel and soft iron cladding as well as Honyaki, when pushed further using the dark mud from the stone, the stone started to bring out grain and texture in the hardened carbon steel when the scratche pattern of direction was lengthwise.I found that this stone gave a mirror polish with a slight haze on the hard steel and a fine Kasumi with a bit more of a mat whitish finish with detail visible in the soft cladding. A bit finer than Ohira 2 it was able to make the steel a bit darker and more mirror like. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEqually it excelled in edge sharpening and different to Ohira Suita 2 I found this stone giving a finer edge, as well sharpening of Japanese woodworking tools was great especially Kanna. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn overall excellent stone suitable for fine polishing and edge sharpening.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Komon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49930203005170,"sku":"260801-OHIRASUITA3","price":80000.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/4956\/7218\/files\/260801-OHIRASUITA3.jpg?v=1786878770","url":"https:\/\/komonjapan.com\/products\/260801-ohirasuita3","provider":"Komon","version":"1.0","type":"link"}