Hitohira - Natural Whetstone - White Natsuya

Brand: Hitohira Producing Area: Iwate Prefecture - Japan Mine: Natsuya Size: L250mm - W66mm - H77mm Weight: 2,573g Est. Grit Range: 1500-3000 STRATA GRADING 1-5 Scale: 1 = Less, 5 = More Hardness: 3.5 Scratch Depth: 3 Speed: 3.5 Wear Rate: 2 Self Slurry: 2 Thirst: 2.5 Consistency: 5 Feedback: 3 Ease of Use: 4 Recommended Usage: Fairly-refined edges, darker/hazier kasumi, early in chisel/plane progression Notes: Similar to Aizu. Firmer and slightly coarser than standard (orange/white) natsuya, but faster and providing a darker, textured kasumi. Quickly brought out banding our our blue 2 tester kiridashi with some very nice gun metal gray kasumi. Really awesome. Please Note: These are an non-serialized series, meaning that we restock these without testing each one as they are all extremely similar to the previous batch. Size, weight, appearance, and characters were measured and tested on a random example.