Thread: The X-Hones

That is a beauty!
Never seen before - neither here nor anywhere else. Thank you!

Beautiful stone I must say. Let us know what you think what get to trying it

Must have missed this thread the other day, so I started an ID help thread over in advanced honing. Someone suggested I move it over here.

I don't want to clutter up the place with duplicate pics, so they can be found in my thread here: http://straightrazorpalace.com/advan...lp-please.html

This stone feels very smooth to the touch and produced a cream/gray slurry when I tried to lap it with sandpaper. This stone is HARD. It ate up about 6 sheets of 220 grit wet/dry and I believe another 3 of 400 before I quit and ordered a DMT coarse.

The DMT should be here tomorrow, so I will post more pics once it's thoroughly lapped. It was a dark blueish-gray color but turned a light grayish-white on the parts that I did get lapped.

I would like to know what stone it is obviously, but barring that I'm also wondering if someone would be able to suggest where in the honing process it should be used. I ordered a Norton 4k/8k with the DMT and was planning on using this mystery hone after the 8k. I'm going to feel them both and see if this hone is really as smooth as it seems to be.

Hi Mudkipz!
Well to me it also looks like an Arkansas.
Beautiful one, too. They do make a slurry when you try hard enough
and a nice addition to your setup.

Well Arkansas seems to be the consensus, now I just need to figure out what to do with it.

Is it a finishing stone? It seems pretty fine.

Yes, it is a finishing stone.
Very fine and very slow.

This is an enjoyable thread to read.

I'm going to have to find some unknown hone so I can join.

I'll have to check out eBay.