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Two doors.

Everything I've written lives behind them.

THE GUIDE

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Ask Benjamin THE GUIDE → So the next session starts with a plan instead of a guess. Two hands finishing a blade on a bench stone, finger stones and slurry on the towel beside it How I measure THE METHOD → So you can order a stone you’ve never touched — and know what will arrive. 0.00/ 5HAZE → MIRRORON CLAD2.06/ 5HAZE → MIRRORON CORE28%CONTRASTCLAD/CORE54%BRIGHTNESSON CLAD0.00/ 5HAZE →MIRRORON CLAD2.06/ 5HAZE →MIRRORON CORE28%CONTRASTCLAD/CORE54%BRIGHTNESSON CLAD

THE METHOD

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The kasumi scale.

Haze → mirror

0no reflection

5perfect mirror

Contrastclad/core

0 %no contrast

100 %highest contrast

Negative contrast: when the core is brighter than the clad. −40 % is the theoretical limit.

Brightnesson clad

0 %darkest

100 %brightest