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I would expect that it won't look like the picture when you get it, though, mine doesn't - instead it looks like various whites and greens and lots of inclusions, but it is solid. The grit ratings on a stone like this are almost worthless. If you can force yourself to resist the urge to slurry the stone, it will become a useful extra dimension in your sharpening arsenal for things where you can apply pressure and use something like WD40 when you can apply pressure. Like jasper stone, it will bring something to a fine polish with the benefit of some pressure.
I am tempted to follow my razor finisher with this stone and just do 3 or 4 hundred laps and see what happens, but I hone so infrequently that I'm sure I'll forget.
I personally wouldn't use it slurried or with oxide powders, it just covers up its virtues - unless you're hard up for a place to put those powders. They do a better job on a razor with a balsa bedding.
Thanks for your insight