Thread: Oh lord not again!!!! Tell me what I paid too much for yet again.

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?

it very well could be an black ark, i just didnt like the crack going down the middle but the crack looks like it formed with the stone. when you scratch the stone rubbing your finger nail over the scratch can you feel if the scratch cut into the stone ?

Those are some nice boxes Joe!

Originally Posted by Scipio

If it is hard, black and in a new looking box, I'd have guessed surgical black Arkansas.

+1, My first impression was Black Arkansas.....

Normally, a crack or inclusion running long ways down the stone, doesn't interfere with honing, IME. Make sure it's lapped flat. If it bother's you, it can probably be sealed. I've done it on Coticules before.

The crease you see is a very mild low spot, but in other stones, I've not had too many issues that I could trace back to something like that as causing it. If it were a softer stone, I might keep at it until I had a perfectly glass smooth surface. But the stone is just too hard for that. If later on down the road, I'm having trouble with it, then I'll fix that first to see if it helps. More than likely this one will not spend much time with razors because I'm pretty fond of thuringian, when I get it right. I'm going to take the stone to an acquaintance who has a surgical black that he never tires of applauding, and ask him what he thinks. (He's never shown me the magical stone..He just likes to tell me about it. lol) The crack or whatever we're calling it isn't noticeable with a fingernail. Really, this stone id pretty well impervious to fingernails. lol But anyhow, it doesn't catch.


Thanks epd! Glad you like them.

the scratch you made on the stone if your finger nail wont catch on it then its safe to say its a surgical black ark