Quote Originally Posted by JimmyH-AD View Post
My kosher is a finishing stone for sure. It is not nearly as aggressive as my other two. All coticules and all cut a bit differently. I have heard that rabbis who do the circumcision seek out perfect unblemished stones and maybe that is how the kosher label came to be for those stones ?

I think the guys that do circumcisions just use standard disposable surgical instruments. It's the ritualistic slaughterers-- the guys that kill animals in a kosher fashion, or shohets, that sharpen up their knives. In fact, the tests for correct sharpness are much like what we use here.