Thread: King combination stone k-80s

Paul-The swirly one looks like one of the Royal Flint Abrasive novaculite stones (Arkie for all intents and purposes). I believe they are mined near Alberta. Some of them are stunningly beautiful with multi-colored banding. I have been jonesing for one real bad for awhile now, as I have a weakness for any type of super-hard novaculite stone, the more exotic and weird the better as long as they give that unique Arkie/novaculite finish. They seem to have quite a presence on ebay.

Here is their Facebook page with some beautiful examples: https://www.facebook.com/pg/Royal-Fl...3287480/posts/[/URL]. Please tell us how it hones. I'll bet if you left one side "rough" (say lapped and flattened with 600-1k), and burnished the other, you would get smoking edges if it is one of their harder stones (they have a different grading system than Dan's and US Arkies). Only 1 way to find out.