Thread: WHAT IS IT?

Howard let me know how you like me to take picture i will do it and email to you. No problem.
i have similar charnley which you have but this is not greenish more likely Brown color.
i talk with seller he doesn't know anything except he says it is may be overseas this means nothing,

A translucent Arkansas will look like that, if its been soaked in oil for a long time...

Mac

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That's what I conjectured, that a lot of the colour might be oil etc. on/in a white translucent Arkansas, but I don't know American hones well enough to say really.

has anyone used arkansas for final polish? i have one white color and small size. i will try them and see what is a differences between them or they are same. honing ability shouldn't change although colors are different right? lets see i will try it today.

Originally Posted by hi_bud_gl

has anyone used arkansas for final polish? i have one white color and small size. i will try them and see what is a differences between them or they are same. honing ability shouldn't change although colors are different right? lets see i will try it today.

There was a long thread about Arkansas stones a while back, that ended with the conclusions that they are very slow and death to DMT's when trying to lap them. I did not get any better results with either the translucent or black Arkansas than I did with a coticule or Chinese 12k. Great for knives, though.

Originally Posted by hi_bud_gl

has anyone used arkansas for final polish? i have one white color and small size. i will try them and see what is a differences between them or they are same. honing ability shouldn't change although colors are different right? lets see i will try it today.

Mparker and Olivia have extensive experience with the translucent. Im relatively new to the black and translucent Arkansas stone, but am having good shaves off of them.

Mac

... and Mastro Livi!

ok guys i did check my stones took me long time but i find out i think i have 3 more arkansas stones.
You will see the pictures. let me know what do you think. Big stone which we have doubt about it i think is 96% arkansas only brown dots and lines confuse me that is it. Let me know what do you think. 3 stone kinda half white and half brown. INteresting . last one is 100 arkansas

98 % that it is one.
Seen a seller today (gotentirely2muchstuff), offering a whole collection.
She has them in opaque and translucent, too.

They are really nice I know that!!!!