Thread: Never know what you get still dont.

Hi folks. The stone is a washita in my experience. Very common over here in the UK at one time (and still very popular with woodworkers using naturals) I've a badly dished one I gave up trying to lap. Hard mo'fo's for sure. There is a guy over here who used to sell a lot of Charnleys and he rated the Washita. Mind you, here was a woodworker back in the day. I guess if you could get one really lapped off (must say, the OP's looks like it's on the way) they would have to be worth giving a go as a comparison to more usual finishers. I'd try and get it lapped up to at least 1k if time and patience permits bigG. Hone using a very light oil such as sewing machine oil, or as a more friendly alternative,a soapand water solution. (apologies if you already knew that last bit).

I would also say Washita. I lapped mine in simmilar manner and apart from time it required a lot of paper.

washita is the coarsest ark stone it's around 400 grit the stone in the pic looks to be an hard ark imo

Originally Posted by cj121

I've a badly dished one I gave up trying to lap. Hard mo'fo's for sure.

If you think lapping a washita is bad, try lapping a black/translucent arkansas.

The last ark I tried lapping didnt get finished!!! Its terrible

Originally Posted by eleblu05

washita is the coarsest ark stone it's around 400 grit the stone in the pic looks to be an hard ark imo

Now I know why I didn't pursue it as I 've synthetics to do the grunt work.

Looks like we're getting somewhere though: identified but not a finisher and sits somewhere in a natural progession (?)


@Theseus: go get 'em : )

first pic washita second pic and to the left a vintage hard ark and to the right a newer hard ark