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Any updates from the recipients on performance?

Ivo has received his care package. Please let me know when everyone else receives theirs.

Also, let us all know how you go with the stones. One thing you should notice is that it is softer than...

No problems.

Everyone has a PM.

OK, what I need to know is:

Do people want to save money and have all the stones posted to one location for onforwarding?

Does anyone prefer to have their stone(s) sent directly to them, be it...

OK, the post office weighed the stones and came up with the following prices (including appropriate packaging):

~$13.20 USD for all the stones in one package to anywhere in the US.

~$8.70 USD...

Let me clean up the stones this weekend and and I'll check into the postage this week in between the jigs and the reels.

Well, fresh from the vice and coping saw:

http://www.upaboveit.com/images/misc/razors/escher/cut/eRIMG0366.jpg

Unless there is a violent objection I plan to tidy up the sides, lap each piece...

Here are some options:

Option 1, Rich gets a wide stone. Izlat gets a thin stone (but not from the marginally thicker end. There is a teeny bit spare.
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Such a small piece! I mean, it's not a rubbing stone. It's just a pebble. There's barely anything there to hold onto.

1" x 1" is really the smallest I think you should go, preferably 2" x 1". Make...

OK, a 2" x 5" almost takes take of the stone all by itself, assuming a 2" x 1" rubbing stone, as I assume a rubbing stone would be required in addition to the main stone.

With that pattern we...

OK, here are some images to crystalise any doubt or committment. Note that this isn't a mint stone. If it was, I wouldn't be thinking of cutting it up. It's a very used stone. One side is quite worn....

http://www.upaboveit.com/images/misc/razors/escher/1/7802_1.jpg

I had also considered mounting it in an 8" x 3" resin base so that it could sit in one of those blue plastic sharpening stations/cases that come with the Norton 3" wide stones these days.

It's...

An 8" x 2". Not one I use due to having larger available to me.

I suppose I could cut it into 2 x 4" x 1" + 4 x 2" x 1" but cutting across the stone to make 8 x 2" x 1" is a hell of a lot easier...

I have a spare large yellow/green stone that I can cut up into slurry stones for people.

I suppose a slurry stone 2" x 1" in size would suit most people.

Thoughts? Pricing suggestions?