Thread: Anyone using Apache stones ?

Cream sounds like the same thing I call tan or beige. As far as I know there are only two Strata varieties, then there's the Red.

Mine is grey with really cool shades of green when wet.

Yeah my grey has slight dark bands. It slurries pink.

Originally Posted by eKretz

Yeah my grey has slight dark bands. It slurries pink.

I gave up trying to build a slurry on mine. I have a slurry stone for it, but the two together are useless. I can raise a slurry with a DMT, but I don't want to put scratches in the Apache..

I only slurried it when I flattened it, don't use it to hone. My Atoma 400 is so worn out it almost leaves a mirror finish on stones though.

Not sure what you mean by mild. They are VERY hard and mine is extremely fine. It does not eat much metal though. Even running a Kanna plane over it barely makes swarf and they are mostly soft iron.

The surface is almost getting burnished now with use, the middle has gotten really shiny. I'm guessing they would polish very well if the entire surface was burnished.

Originally Posted by ferroburak

Haven't heard of it till now. Looking at the photos in their website, the cream variety looks like a mild stone but maybe I'm wrong.

I am pretty sure these stones work mostly by burnishing on razors. In all my testing I have rarely seen them pull much if any swarf on a razor, even if I go from a DMT 325 to the Apache. Softer things like penknives they can cut a bit more.

This is my Apache stone.... I love it!

What a looker! I might have to upgrade my real estate if he produces more cream with red markings.

Originally Posted by DireStraights

What a looker! I might have to upgrade my real estate if he produces more cream with red markings.

He called this one "Art-Like Beauty"..... There were 7 of em at the time with these markings when I bought it.