Eleblu: I scratched it fairly easily with a nailset, and the color or the scratch is white. The lines you see in the surface do appear like they might be cracks, but on looking endwise at the stone, they don't travel through the stone. I'm fairly sure if I was to spend three hours with a DMT, I'd have about the same result as you did. It polished with 600 grit dry. And I tried making slurry the old fashioned way with a slurry stone of c12k. The c12k slurry scuffed the surface a little but didn't create any slurry except for maybe it's own. I'm thinking it really has to be Arkansas after honing on it. Anyways, what are you thinking on it?