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    After a very informative afternoon at Randy Tuttle's house yesterday, trying different slurry's on natural stones. I tried all my bargain bin (one nice Coticule in the 6-8k spot) with their own slurry's.

    L to R in the photo Whitish Unknown and very coarse hone, Queer Creek hone, Coticule, Translucent Ark.
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    I used heavy slurry on the large coarse stone on the left, it turned black in seconds, then just water. Same with the Queer Creek stone, light slurry on Coticule then water, no slurry on the Ark. Roughly 20-30 laps per stone

    The results were very good and surprising on antique store find that was basically a butter knife pre honing, after 20 laps on a cromox paddle and 60 on leather it pops hair as well as off my usual routine (1k synthetic, Norton 4/8k, C12K)
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    What can you say about the queer creek stone? I found a stone in my shed just like that one but it had oil in it, never used it.

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    It seems like a meduim 3k-5k, it seems to work maybe better with it's slurry. Mine was oil soaked as well so I went to the GoodWill and bought a really cheap pan and boiled the stone in water with some dish soap for an hour, then used oven cleaner. The results were pretty good. My coarse stone is a soft Arkansas I think, it also worked well with it's own slurry. The test shave wasn't great but I've had worse. I'm trying to get a full natural progression and it's still a work in progress!

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