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    Default My barber hone, please advise

    i picked up this barber hone at the flea market for $1.00 this last weekend.
    it was heavily cupped in the middle on both sides. I managed to flatten one side on my sidewalk, then a little honing with wet sandpaper.

    can anyone half way identify it? I am trying to figure out if it would be a good finishing stone to use after my Norton 4k/8k or would the 8k norton be better to use last.


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    What makes you think it is a barber hone?
    It is easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled. Twain

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    it looks corse like a hone for tools to me...

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    Quote Originally Posted by nun2sharp View Post
    What makes you think it is a barber hone?
    Hmm. I guess I don't know. Just assumed, it is very smooth.

    Would it still work?

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    Quote Originally Posted by sidmind View Post
    Hmm. I guess I don't know. Just assumed, it is very smooth.

    Would it still work?
    You would have to try it and see for yourself. I have absolutely no idea what it is.
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    You lapped it on your sidewalk; now that's hardcore. God bless ya!
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    It wont work. just use for knife or anything else.
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    Now did the person selling it claim it was a barber hone..or were you like "WOW I saw something like this on SRP! What a bargain for $1!!!"

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    Quote Originally Posted by kaivorth View Post
    Now did the person selling it claim it was a barber hone..or were you like "WOW I saw something like this on SRP! What a bargain for $1!!!"
    probably more like, Hey that's cool it's soft and smooth like a barber hone. I am a newb.....

    What I am wanting to do soon. is compare it to the Norton 8k using the same test we do here at work. basically you take a small piece of metal and encapsulate it into resin. then grind smooth using a hone. then put it under the 1000x microscope. We use the system at work to look for excessive carbon chains after heat treat, but I think it would be good to see "how" smooth my different hones polish up.

    Our corporate offices have a scanning electron microscope, now that would be cool...

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    Just looking at the picture it looks like Washita full of oil.
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