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The pictures make it look like a hairline crack.
One of my coticules has a hairline crack (2 actually) but they don't cause problems because I use that one only for kitchen knives. Back when I was...

In the end, all (new) stones come from ardennes, one way or another :)
My 8x3" coticule went from you to Howard, and then back to me.

But this is truly great customer service Rob!

I have a Japanese stone that was chipped Removing the chip would have been too much work, so I just rounded the edges of the chipped part with sandpaper.
It works perfectly and the missing bit is...