Thread: What is known of the MST Muller stone?

Funny thing ;-)

@Fal: great that you made youre own decision based on some given information of experienced people.

Thanks Doorsch, that's why I came here, to talk with you experts and I appreciate all of the comments and those who have offered their help.
We are at times all teachers or students.

I had one of the larger stones from open razor (MST). It didn't cost a lot, but in my opinion, it wasn't even worth the time. I'd only use it for a slate pre-finisher (mine glinted back at you like described above). I'd say it was in the range of a 3k stone in terms of finish, but you couldn't coax a finish out of it like you can some pre finishers.

The trouble with it and other middle cutting hone slates is that they are slow for the finish they offer. There are stones that do prefinish and offer a fairly refined edge (tsushima, washita, etc) and then there are stones that don't (slates, aggressive synthetics).

I just didn't find that the MST stone did anything well, and one could say that you could use it to set up for an escher (and that is true). The only problem is once you're using a razor that is ready for an escher, it can be refreshed on the escher without ever having to step down to a coarser stone again.

And if you're setting up new razors, you probably won't want to tolerate the slowness of the MST for what it returns in fineness. If you're, however, looking for something that's just interesting and different, I guess it could satisfy that.