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Originally Posted by OLD_SCHOOL
This one's colour is the same yellow as a coticule, though the scanner adjusts the colour, but seriously in person, they look exactly identical. As you can see in the pic the corner has been smoothed, I did that coz I thought it might be why it wasn't selling. When the diamond hone is going across it with water, the hone was a beautiful light blue, then once it dried, it turned yellow again, but if you look closely you can see the evident blue on that corner. IIRC someone mentioned that So's miracle Asagi is very similar.
I actually prefer the Asagi hones for Japanese sraights.
The first pic is before, and the second is after.
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That looks lovely O_S. I have seen So's Asagi, but for the life of me I can't remember what it looks like (as in whether it was yellow with blue or all blue). It's a biggun, that I can say for certain.
Are Japanese straights harder steel than western straights? Because I can see how the stronger cutting strength of the Asagi would certainly be beneficial with harder steels.
James.