Originally Posted by
Marshal
Yeah, I'm not worried about the thread wandering. The original topic is settled, we know what the eBay lot contained. Where it wanders from this point doesn't make much a differenice one way or the other.
On the topic of barber hones, one of mine got lapped and burnished. The good thing about ebay is finding deals - I got 2 B. hones for 30 bucks, not too shabby. The bad thing is that I couldn't see how scratched up the edge really was on 1 of the 2. So it had to be cleaned up and resurfaced. In any other case I'd rather not run the risk of messing up a hone.
In the case of the translucent stones, both sides of my large stone and the banded one were out of flat. The banded hone was normal dishing from use, I think the large trans was simply not flattened properly to start with. It's high in the middle on both sides. If I were to take a picture of it now, I think it would be an argument in favor of surfacing a stone. You can clearly see the oval band where I've been working it that is glassy and smooth, and about an inch on either side that is clearly pitted and rough. I think most of us would agree that glassy surface is the preferred one, whether the owner would take it beyond the initial flattening is obviously individual preference.