Naniwa Aotoshi, "green brick of joy". One stone sharpening session

So i just wanted to pull out my Naniwa aotoshi for a sharpening session.
I love working with slurry, and this is a great stone to do so on. Its a great alternative if you are consistent with maintenance and just want one proper stone to do so on.
You would still need a coarser stone for repairwork.
As always, i hope you enjoy the video, please comment and subscribe, i read all comments, and try to answer as many questions as i can. :)

[@t.michaelbodine4341]

Great video. Thanks. That's a great knife and a great stone. I'm jealous.

[@lofotenknifeworks2278]

@t.michaelbodine4341 thx. For the kind comment :)

[@lofotenknifeworks2278]

@t.michaelbodine4341 thx. For the kind comment :)

[@acoupleofsharpthings]

Picked up this stone this week, been ogling it for years and I'm really glad I finally got one. Great vid man.

[@lofotenknifeworks2278]

Glad to hear it. Its a very interresting stone, let me know what you think about after youve had some time on it :)

[@mfreeman313]

Very interesting vid. I'm getting to a situation where I anticipate that my sharpening will consist mostly of touching up a variety of knives that have fallen short of perfect sharpness, but aren't in any way truly dull. This stone, as far as I know, would be useful for a lot of that, and would last quite a few years. What you're doing shows a variety of ways you can use this stone and that's very, very helpful. You've got a new subscriber!

[@lofotenknifeworks2278]

thank you for the kind comment :)

[@hoggif]

This is one of the rare vidios that tell downsides of rust erasers. I've also found the medium (white markings) one can leave particles behind. The fine one (with red markings) leaves no or lot less particles, buy if you clean a long time only with it, it seems to leave rubbery residue that destroys feedback. This can be very clear with harder stones like shapton glass stones whren there is no mud or wearing to remove/clean the surface. I find Naniwa aoto quite capable stone but quite slow, has tendency to load on surface and soft enough to not tolerate mistakes in technique with edge leading strokes. One can shave off slices quite easily. I prefer faster stones and separate 1-2k and 3-4k for similar edge. I find the feedback quite average at most too with green brick. An interesting stone but not the one for me to prefer.

[@sonkekoster3105]

I totally agree this is the one to go for knive maintenance!

[@thiago.assumpcao]

Great video man. Clean cut just with stone. Good to see there's many good sharpening channels in English. In Portuguese its a mess. Most videos they teach to sharpen at 40 degrees and using a honing rod, its painfull to watch. lol.

[@hello.itsme.5635]

Thank you for your video with great information. I just got this stone today and sharpened one knife with it. It was quite fun. Came here to check my experience against others and my experience is quite similar to yours. I tried the rust eraser and a nagura to get some slurry too and had to wash it of because of some coarser particles too. I ended up using a atoma 600 for that. I had expected the stone to cut faster but maybe that will come over time. I'm looking forward to use this stone more. I like the edge with quite a bite it produces.

[@TheGreenBrickOfWisdom]

Green Brick.

[@knifesharpeningnorway]

Looks good mate soon 100 subs to awesome mate 😁

[@lofotenknifeworks2278]

Almost, almost :)

[@dimmacommunication]

I'm getting curious toward the Shapton 2000 , considering I've been doing 400/1000 sharpening with diamond stones ( with great results,super cheap also using chinese diamond stones)

[@lofotenknifeworks2278]

The 2000 grit stones in general lives in between what we would call medium stones and polishing stones. Its excellent if you want to do maintenance work, but don't need a 3k pluss edge, and just want a single stone for the job. Shapton uses larger abrasive particles and would be coarser than the naniwa aotoshi :) I don't hate on cheap chineese stones, I get great results on them as well 😅

[@lycheesack]

shapton pro 2k vs naniwa green brick 2k? It looks really polished , wish there was closeup

[@knifesharpeningnorway]

Naniwa aotoshi is basically more towards a 4k stone in edge and polish

[@knifesharpeningnorway]

Shapton pro 2k will also be more 1700 ish. And do harder more abrasive resistant steels like harder hap 40 and similar.

[@lofotenknifeworks2278]

Hey John. thanks for the suggestion, and that would actually be an interresting video to use as an explenation of how "grit" works. Naniwa use alot of polishing agent and small abrasive particles making their stones seem finer than what they really are. For shapton its the oposite, they use less binding/polishing agent and larger abrasive particles in their mix. Making them seem coarser than what they are :)|

[@maia418]

What kind of stone did you use to dull your knife as well as to create the slurry? Im pretty much learning on knife sharpening so I don't know much about the equipment. Thanks in advance

[@lofotenknifeworks2278]

To dull the knife i used an old Zwilling 1000 grit stone. It is sold as a twin stone with a plastic backing and a box. I removed the stone to keep as is (and i got one as a spare that i treat better). The nagura i used (for the slurry) came with a King G-1 8000 grit stone. u find naguras sold seperately as well, i reccon Naniwa has a decent selection. Glad to hear you are working on your skills, its a great skill to have, easy to learn but very hard to master. Keep at it, and have a great day :)

[@maia418]

Lofoten Knifeworks Thank you so much for the recommendation and tips!!

[@lofotenknifeworks2278]

@@maia418 Any time :)