Thread: Does anyone recognize this hone?

Well......it's funny looking back on your own posts after time has passed. Since posting this I have not really learned any more about the stone but it doesn't really matter to me so much about the maker or history etc. anymore. I have learned more about honing and stones than I knew then. There is another post about this hone somewhere when I played with it again a while back. This was probably made to be a one stone hone and I have toyed with it some trying to figure it out. I then got sidetracked with a batch of arks that Dad had and all that goes with that. Man, was I green back then. Not to say that I am an expert now or that it was so long ago but I wish I knew then what little I know now.
I will probably write a new post about it once I get a handle on it but I have managed to go bevel set to finish with it. I played around with slurries and different lubricants and so far I have had the best luck with water and mixes of water and glycerin and with Smith's and also with WD-40 or with dish detergent. The soft side cuts pretty fast and the finish side is rather slow but I can make it leave the bevel frosty like an ark does with a diamond plate slurry (on this stone) then make it shiny like an 8k does with just water (again on this stone). It's still a work in progress but with now having a little more knowledge of hones, better honing techniques (mainly moving past the pyramid progression and using a more realistic stone progression) and a better understanding of how to flatten, lap and burnish I think I can come up with a process to take an edge from butter knife dull to dead keen with the one stone. I'll keep you posted but it is definitely a joy to hone with this gigantic thing.