Quote Originally Posted by adrspach View Post
It is realy about what suits you personally. At present I am trying to renovate few old Bailey planes and that for me means to find original japaning paint for it. On my significantly younger vice I just used nice hammered finish paint. As they say there are horses for courses.
I just re-examined the stone, not enough rosin left. It got scrubbed away. And the blue is only 1/16 to 1/8" thick-PLUS i just don't need another variable in my honing learning at this point in time.