Originally Posted by
Alucard73
gssix when the stones are tested for density and graded by a reputable miner i'm confident in they're consistency there may be a little variation in arkansas stones and if you can pick it you must be better than me,unless it's rock that's formed in small pieces it's sometimes thousands of tons formed in one piece that is the same through out my family have worked in quarries for several generations,is your snowy white softer than another piece of quachita maybe is it a better polisher than surgical black definitely not if you don't believe that talk to the people that mine the noviculite,i guess all of us that do more than 100 laps without messing up are expert honers what makes honing a razor so difficult?? why can't a "newb" learn to use any stone they want?? it's not rocket science yet it's shrouded in the not for newbs mystery the design allows for extreme ease of sharpening and i'm not comparing it to knife honing,honing knives isn't that hard either but requires more concentration than a razor no need to be a physics wizz to succeed in this already complicated task,if you read the posts properly you would have read that i said bench stones would be better definitely didn't recommend a tri-hone i don't tell others to use something that i never would and there was no other recommendation of any stones just what i have experienced over years of use