In respect to mine location, yes.
But you can have peaches, pears, apples, growing in the same orchard, yet their all different in taste n texture.

I too have a soft Washita, but it won't do what a true Washita can do. It acts more like a Ark, only good for so far, and that's it. Where a true Washita covers a wider spectrum of honing ranges.

Like calling a Indian a white man. Yea, we share the same DNA, as humans go. But we are different.