Ordered my first natural hone from a guy that sells them on ebay. The price was affordable so i thought i'd give it a try.The first one i received and started to lap showed cracks on both sides. He was kind enough to take it back and even refund the shipping. got the second the next day (today) and after hours of lapping with first some 180 emery cloth and then some 320 wet dry (that's all i have) it's clear that i'm going to need to find another method. My question is, this seems to be a lot different than the first(as far as i can remember) harder and looks to be coarser when compared to the slurry stone i got. do Guanxi's polish smooth? 'cuz there is no sign of that yet, and there's some spots of gold (is that a problem?) i hate to send it back again but i don't want a hone that's unusable as a finisher.
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