Thread: Hard Arkansas

Nice to hear. That's a beautiful stone, congrats

So I touched up my blade with the Black and went straight to the linen and then leather - wow!

I guess the last time I ran it over the CrOx after the Black and before the leather because that works so well for me off the Nani's.

Way smooth!! I can't even start to tell you guys how impressed I am with my Arks! I really thought they were going to be for my kitchen knives but...

By the way - the soft and hard is all I need really for my kitchen knives.

I really am having fun with these things lol!

Originally Posted by cosperryan

Ones a "medium" sized hard black and the other is a large sized translucent. I bought both. She literally just let me know today right as I was about to order a different stone. I had to beg SWMBO to let me buy both. She said that when I first started to get into straights that my reasoning was that it would save money. 10 razors and as many stones and soaps later in the span of a couple of years she said that is not the case. She said that I can't buy another shaving thing for at least a year. I agreed for now hoping she will forget sometime in the near future.

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That will never happen, they never forget in fact, I hear that elephants take memorization courses from women

4 more days and I'll be at Dans shop. Hope to find something cool to get If for nothing else they look cool! Tc

Originally Posted by guitstik

That will never happen, they never forget in fact, I hear that elephants take memorization courses from women

Here's why this is a true fact! I've posted it before but I hope all reading this will take the 13-14 minutes to watch. I won't argue against anything this man has to say!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XjUFYxSxDk

Originally Posted by cudarunner

Here's why this is a true fact! I've posted it before but I hope all reading this will take the 13-14 minutes to watch. I won't argue against anything this man has to say!

Watched that the first time you put it up, very funny.

Making enquiries about a black Arkansas available locally at the moment, from all the great reports about them, I may have to go for it. Looks a reasonable size, just waiting to hear back what the dimensions are.

While I've never used an Arkansas Hone a couple of years ago I was helping a young Dentist going to school to become an Oral Surgeon in India with DE and straights razors, he'd paid pretty hefty price for a small Arkansas Black to keep in his pocket to touch up surgical tools. It was dropped and broken he asked if I could help him with buying another. I had a nice Swaty Barbers hone so I sent that to him to try and he loved it! In fact he thought it was a finer grit than the ARK Black as the cutting edges were 'almost' too smooth compared to what he'd been used to.

I'd asked him to dedicate one side to the straights I'd given him and one side for the surgical tools.

Just thought that I'd toss that in there

Interesting....I picked up a NOS Swaty a while back, but it is one of the later production ones I think, and some of the guys have mentioned they weren't as good as the old three line ones. Maybe I should give it a try.

Originally Posted by cudarunner

While I've never used an Arkansas Hone a couple of years ago I was helping a young Dentist going to school to become an Oral Surgeon in India with DE and straights razors, he'd paid pretty hefty price for a small Arkansas Black to keep in his pocket to touch up surgical tools. It was dropped and broken he asked if I could help him with buying another. I had a nice Swaty Barbers hone so I sent that to him to try and he loved it! In fact he thought it was a finer grit than the ARK Black as the cutting edges were 'almost' too smooth compared to what he'd been used to.

I'd asked him to dedicate one side to the straights I'd given him and one side for the surgical tools.

Just thought that I'd toss that in there

It would be hard to tell what black he was using and more importantly how it was conditioned. I have had a Swatty in my hand but never used one but from feel I find it hard to believe it was finer than either of my black stones and no where near the translucent.

I've followed this conversation with great interest. The finest stone I have now is a norton 8k, which would suit me better a black or a trans? Thanks in advance