Thread: Quality Variation in Black Ark Stones

Their stones are the same size in full price. The reason that this one was in the specials is that there's a tiny spot on the opposite side that looks like a permanent water spot, but doesn't come out.

Their regular price for these is somewhere around $415 or so, which despite their ability to make excellent stones, is a little bit out of the realm of reasonable in my opinion. Just as their black stones are great, but $330 is a bit out of bounds there, too, in my opinion.

The black trans stone from natural whetstone is just as good in quality and density for about $200, and I may just order one of those to compliment this, instead. I did learn that I need to call and ask ordering one of those before, too, though. I got a stone that was not even thickness, but that was just a geometric issue, as the stone was excellent after conditioning the surface.

(I could be wrong about that, I think they'd have mentioned it in the stone auction if it could've been that size, but the description said 10x3x1. )

on their regular bench stone page, the normal size 2" wide stones specify the thickness as 3/4-1.

For what it's worth, Norton went to 3/4ths inch a long time ago.