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03-12-2015, 11:20 AM #1
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.
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03-12-2015, 11:52 AM #2
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
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03-23-2015, 03:31 AM #3
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03-23-2015, 12:50 PM #4
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Thanked: 458We 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.
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03-23-2015, 11:37 PM #5
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03-24-2015, 04:33 PM #6
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Thanked: 458I 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.
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03-24-2015, 07:33 PM #7
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Thanked: 246I don't think that the prices will go up, it's not like there's a huge run on primitive stones, lol.
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03-24-2015, 07:34 PM #8
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Thanked: 458Neither 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.
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03-12-2015, 08:43 PM #9
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Thanked: 580Thanks 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.Into this house we're born, into this world we're thrown ~ Jim Morrison