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#203 AWASEDO
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SUITA AWASEDO 206 - 80 - 35mm 1.5 kg. = 3.3 lbs. The only markings left on the top of this stone are at the lower right IPONSEN (number one chosen), but there is a stamp on the end that reads ASAHI (morning sun). This Asahi mark is the same as on the top of Suita #55. This is a suita stone, and it is hard enough to be a hon suita stone. The peach color surface of the stone is peppered with darker nashi-ji particles which you can also see on the sides and the back of the stone too. If you develop a paste with a diamond plate, the paste is pure white. This is the type of hard stone to use when you want to put the final finish on a kanna blade because the stone will keep the flat profile and therefore allow your blade to remain truly flat, while at the same time polishing the steel to a hazy mirror finish and maintaining the kasumi contrast between the two metals. A totally hard stone that requires sharpening experience but with a slurry induced with a diamond plate the true sharpening nature of this stone comes out in all its glory. The grit is a solid 38,000 level.
*If a diamond plate induced slurry is used.
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