Thread: Hard Arkansas

The dans primitive stones are like an off the menu item. You have to know it exists before ordering. I don't know why they dont advertise it. Saves them lots of money

Originally Posted by Wid

The third stone is a Washita. I have shaved off one before, you can get a serviceable edge but it's not as comfortable as it could be.

Thanks Wid, that makes sense. The only info I could find about the Washita is they were used in the abattoirs here for knives. It is the second one I have seen, but no-one knew what they were.
The second stone, I got wrong too, it is a Hard Translucent Arkansas stone from sharpeningsupplies.com.
There is another thread here using a different approach with the Arks which I found interesting.

Originally Posted by cosperryan

The dans primitive stones are like an off the menu item. You have to know it exists before ordering. I don't know why they dont advertise it. Saves them lots of money

Just contacted Dan's about getting a Primitive Translucent just a little smaller than the Black they sent me. Seems like they are not all that popular except with us razor guys.

Thanks to threads like this we can all order "off the menu"

Originally Posted by FranfC

Just contacted Dan's about getting a Primitive Translucent just a little smaller than the Black they sent me. Seems like they are not all that popular except with us razor guys.

Thanks to threads like this we can all order "off the menu"

We woodworkers (not necessarily me) are often catalog buyers, and not too adventurous.

A lot of the woodworking crowd that's out there is incapable of using anything that isn't matched to a sharpening guide. It sort of baffles me as to why people wouldn't want to develop some hand skill, but many don't want to.

Originally Posted by FranfC

Just contacted Dan's about getting a Primitive Translucent just a little smaller than the Black they sent me. Seems like they are not all that popular except with us razor guys.

Thanks to threads like this we can all order "off the menu"

I guess soon the prices are going to go up then. Good thing I got mine already.

I wish they stocked some. It's not like I need stones, but I wouldn't mind a few hunks of their rejects. I already have two of their bona fide 8x2 bench stones (black and trans).

I'm just too lazy and impatient to wait a month for them.

I don't think that the prices will go up, it's not like there's a huge run on primitive stones, lol.

Neither do I, but just a hunch. If they put them on their page, they could market them for 2/3rds of bench stone price and I'll bet people would buy them.

But it would also cut into their finished stone sales.

Yeah I was just joking. I remember the dragons tongue stones went up when people on here and other forums started going crazy on them and Inigo Jones didn't know how to handle it and couldn't make them fast enough and people were charging higher prices for theirs. Of course they are not a full time hone making company like dans so.

It'd be interesting to hear from dans what most of their market is. When you go around woodworking stores, there are tons of them that have 1/2 inch thick stones from dans. Razor users would be a tiny tiny market for them.