Thread: Sparkley hone that really performs!!!

I'm not sure what this is guys, but it sure does a nice job. This stone gives a pretty much non-existent scratch pattern. Oddly, it still seems like it must be a pretty fast cutter. 100 strokes on a 1200 grit India, 60 strokes on this thing, 30 leather, exceptional shave. I know it's an odd progression but the keenness markers were there with only this. Used on a hollow ground blade, it cut hairs with no pressure silently. They just fell. Completely new experience to this guy.lol.

Measures 8x1 7/8 and came with a chunk of Arkansas that I thought was a slurry stone, but I haven't figured out how to use it yet, or why it'd be necessary. Seriously took me 10 minutes. Which is an all time, complete luck type of honing experience for me. It usually takes me at least an hour, and sometimes days...lol So it's possible it wasn't the hone, and just a lucky day, but I can tell you I've got SR's I've spent days trying to refine that don't shave as well as this one did.

It does give off a purple slurry, but it's pretty hard and I didn't lap it to completely flat. No picture can accurately show the sparkle factor on this thing. It's like a disco ball. lol. Otherwise in the dim light, it looks dull grey. But even a little bit of light and it's sparkling again.