Thread: isn't it an Arkansas stone?

I was watching a sharpening stone the other day on E-bay, and I was going to bid on it, because the current bid at that time was just $12 plus shipping but later on the bid increased to more than $20. Anyways The seller advertised the stone as a vintage white hone razor sharpener. For me the stone looks just like a soft Arkansas that I got and the stone measurements are exactly the same ones of my stone.
Anyway I paid for my stone $29 brand new in a wooden box and the stone in e-bay was sold for $42
I know I could be wrong but isn't the stone overpriced? Too expensive?

Vintage White Hone Stone Razor Sharpener | eBay

that might be soft or might be hard impossible to tell from photos.
from photos one needs to use it and see where it falls in honing.
Good soft Arkansas is really hard to get your hands on.
You should post the one ya bought the photo of the stone.

Originally Posted by jelajemi

I was watching a sharpening stone the other day on E-bay, and I was going to bid on it, because the current bid at that time was just $12 plus shipping but later on the bid increased to more than $20. Anyways The seller advertised the stone as a vintage white hone razor sharpener. For me the stone looks just like a soft Arkansas that I got and the stone measurements are exactly the same ones of my stone.
Anyway I paid for my stone $29 brand new in a wooden box and the stone in e-bay was sold for $42
I know I could be wrong but isn't the stone overpriced? Too expensive?

Vintage White Hone Stone Razor Sharpener | eBay

Here pics of a soft I bought from a ebay lot just the two stones are worth what I paid for a lot of stones so much black Arkansas stone
in this soft at one end any one skilled with a stone should be able to finish by working it over the black area. Though it's so much fun working a big axe over this 10by3by1 stone.
finish the razor by working just over the black stuff.

Originally Posted by Suile

that might be soft or might be hard impossible to tell from photos.
from photos one needs to use it and see where it falls in honing.
Good soft Arkansas is really hard to get your hands on.
You should post the one ya bought the photo of the stone.

Pike washita is about it these days (pike, norton, behr manning, woodworkers delight, mechanics friend, etc ...or if lucky, some less expensive unmarked really old pike mine washitas).

No other soft stone has the range that those do, though some of the pinkish multicolor softs a couple of decades old can do fast bevel work, but can't go fine. The naturalwhetstone soft stone is also a fast stone that can cut fast, but it too will leave a razor more coarse than a washita. Fortunately, both of those types are cheap.

The stone in the picture looks like novaculite, but something more modern - like what sellers refer to as hard now. Sometimes some of those stones turn out to be some kind of fine sandstone or aluminum oxide, too, though.

It looks like a hard ark I got. Really hard telling with out testing it.

I should try my pike Washita next time I take my razor to a stone.
I bought it off the ebay as a unmarked stone.
It has a label that's hard to read cause it's so black from metal.

I have old tombstone hone that what I think it is.
It's a nice fine still needs a little more flatting though.