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#217 AWASEDO
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SUITA AWASEDO 205 - 77 - 43mm 1.7 kg. = 3.9 lbs. Reads from the top right down SHO HONZAN AWASE TOISHI (pure original mountain finish stone) And down the middle right SUITA This light colored suita stone aggressively cuts both white and blue steel. It is hard and when sharpening leaves black filings in a pool of clear water. If a diamond nagura is used, the stone cuts very very fast. A full size stone that is meaty thick with faint spots of dark nashi-ji it is an old mined stone from around the 1930s to 1940s that and has a microns thin sheen of oxidation that when worn through the stone will look lighter in color and will be easier to use because the suita pores will open up for water retention to help create and maintain a slurry. This sheen can be taken off immediately with a diamond plate or through use in sharpening and is already thinner in the test area towards the lower half of the stone. It came from a closed up store in a small town in Japan.
*If a diamond plate induced slurry is used.
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