Originally Posted by
DaveW
I gathered from the discussion of stones that the virtue of the turkey stones was that it was friable mixed among a sea of stones that weren't much so. either holtzappfel or somewhere else there was a description that led you to believe that a cutler or cabinetmaker may have flattened a turkey stone several times in the same session.
If you were sharpening turning tools, cabinetmaking tools, carpenters tools, etc, and forced to use only a charnley forest, an idwall or a hone slate, you would greatly appreciate the extra speed that you'd get from a friable stone, especially if some of the tools were on the hard side.
But for the final finish on a razor, friable in natural abrasive sizes is bad, right? They just couldn't be that fine, just like any other natural stone that sheds itself uncontrollably.
The later version that describes the washita stone would lead a razor user to figure that it is an ideal single stone, but they are just slightly too coarse for regular razor use. They are fantastic for carbon steel tools in the often presented fantasy dilemma of only being able to have and use one stone for complete maintenance of cutting tools. Probably would make a nice prep stone for a translucent on a razor, and I'm sure you could shave off of one, but it would be more of a challenge to see how you could do it rather than the hope that it would present itself as an ideal stone, right?