Quote Originally Posted by joamo View Post
There are 2 sellers I know of that are selling jaspers and agates as hones on E-bay. I bought the green quartzite above from one of them.

These type stones, much like an Arkie, perform better with a finer, lapped and burnished surface prep. I use oil on mine.
I lapped and burnished this much like an arkie, but all I've used on it so far was water and even did some dry runs with it. Using it dry seemed to bring back some of the keenness on my test razor, but still left it smooth.