There is a difference in Hard Arkansas stones and true hard ones such as the translucent or surgical black.
A progression would be like this:
Soft Ark
Hard Ark
Surgical black or Translucent.
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There is a difference in Hard Arkansas stones and true hard ones such as the translucent or surgical black.
A progression would be like this:
Soft Ark
Hard Ark
Surgical black or Translucent.
I just had some fun on ebay last week as well:
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Wow , nice looking rocks, I sure do love a Norton stone. Is that a washita from 2006 when they did a new run? All the washita stones I have seen are smoke stained yellow to lily white.
I think the modern run came in blue and white boxes. I have a couple old NOS Lily White Washitas that are pretty close to pure white, they're just not super common because the stones were so good that they mostly all got used and yellowed from oil.
I don't know. It smelled bad of mold, so it has been sitting around for a long time. It was never used.
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I had only read about later runs of the Lily White, so that is what I was assuming you meant. What do we call the one on the right? "Washita" or "Washita #1"?
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I have one like that. Produces a cool purple slurry similar to my BBW.