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$5 "thing"-will need your help
Hello all good people,
Today I was on the field trip and on the way back I have noticed Swap Meet market so I decided to stop and look for some razor. I found one guy which had few razor with crazy price tag on it, so I said… eeeh no but then I have noticed something else (picture below) He asked $5 so I said let me buy it as it looks like hone.
This “thing” (I say thing as I don`t know what material even is that) looks to me like two side hone. One (more abrasive) is thinner and other is thicker. More abrasive side is difficult to determinate grade but looks like 1-2k+ or 4-6k (after small flattening) and other … extremely smooth! I have chines stone 12k and this “think” feels 50% smoother that Chinese stone.
I have tried to clean it but it is very oily. Looks like it was oil stone or it is just dirty old oil from time stamp… means no one took care of this “thing” and was left in some kind of oil. One thing for sure… I have tried to flatten this “thing” and my Norton flattening stone and was barely able to remove surface. I think it is stone, very hard stone. Where surface was removed thicker part becomes VERY smooth. Looks I will need to spend some time to polish surfaces and clean it up… and this is my question-is this worth it?
Is this even honing stone? Maybe it is knife (which I personally cannot see it to be as is not very abrasive for knife) sharpener? How about chipped edges? If is not water stone (I think I determinate this as during washing this stone has not absorbed any water) would be this natural stone covered with oil?
Please help to answer me this questions. I know it is difficult to tell from pictures what we dealing with…
Regards
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