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  1. 02-08-2007, 09:09 AM #31
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    Have you got tryed the polish hone?

    Can you tell me your opinion about the hone?

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  2. 02-08-2007, 05:57 PM #32
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    Quote Originally Posted by Zoidberg View Post
    Have you got tryed the polish hone?

    Can you tell me your opinion about the hone?

    Tank's

    Have not tried it yet.
    Randolph Tuttle, a SRP Mentor for residents of Minnesota & western Wisconsin
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  3. 02-10-2007, 04:23 AM #33
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    Just got mine,
    but haven't tried it yet, either. It would seem my Polish razor came not needing it... I'll know in the morning.
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    I have new stone,compact limestone


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  5. 02-20-2007, 07:31 PM #35
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    Does the lower hone on the right have some fossillised beasts in it?
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  6. 02-21-2007, 12:51 PM #36
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    Default Quartz based?

    Randy, the description on that stone says it is compact limestone. Quartz would be much harder. You can easily test for the difference by dropping a drop of household vinegar on a corner of the stone. If it's limestone it will bubble, if quartz nothing will happen. If it's "compact limestone" I'm wondering how good it would be at honing as limestone is way softer than steel. Marble, which is metamorphosed limestone and therefore harder, isn't very useful as a honer.

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    Howard,
    I'm guessing it's much like your Belgians or my Thuringen/Hunsruck stones. A slate, limestone or other matrix containing an abrasive particle, quartz, garnet, etc......that does the work.

    The Polish hone, much like the Escher, Thuringen, Hunsruck etc... are basically slates with something abrasive in them...........and often, little fossilized beasts too.

    I don't recall what family the matrix of the Coticules is though.

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