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02-24-2018, 11:37 PM #11
That is because the French made it ! Just kidding it has the colors of a double ought frictionite. I have one that is creaming on one side and darker brown on the other.
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02-24-2018, 11:44 PM #12
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Thanked: 146Awesome, and thanks! It seems very fine, guess I’ll have to muster up some gumption and give it a whirl to see where it will fall in the progression.
Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity. ~Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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02-24-2018, 11:47 PM #13
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02-24-2018, 11:50 PM #14
You can try turning the hone on it end and run your thumbnail on each color and see if it leave a mark. Do not do it on the part you put the razor .
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02-25-2018, 01:14 AM #15
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Thanked: 315Are those dark spots on the hone or pits? If it is a barber hone with pits in the surface I would think that indicates a problem with the binder. I remember another member posting that barber hones should not make a slurry during use so that would be another tell when you're testing it.
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02-25-2018, 01:25 AM #16
I did not know that about barber hones.
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02-25-2018, 10:52 AM #17
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02-25-2018, 01:19 PM #18
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Thanked: 3795The cracking does suggest a barber hone that has had some degradation of the binder.
After ten years on SRP I regularly "autocorrect" in reverse--typing hone when I meant home!Last edited by Utopian; 02-25-2018 at 04:43 PM.
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02-25-2018, 03:23 PM #19
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Thanked: 146It slurried when I used it to sharpen my pocket knife. It had a white slurry to it.
Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity. ~Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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02-25-2018, 04:40 PM #20
I don't think it's a natural. The pattern of the lines that could become cracks suggest a man made stone. With a problem with the binder, as mentioned above.
On natural stones, this kind of two colored combo, it's not rare for Thuringians, alas we are not looking at one.