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Well, after further investigation(scraping it with a knife) it would appear that this is either the softest glass in recorded history or not glass at all.

I can gouge the "glass" with a butter...

I hadn't even considered using the front but now that I look at it there is an X pattern on the clear side !!

So it IS a two sided hone?? :shrug:

That one at the link you posted sure looked...

Hey Tony,

What do you mean by " the hard seam "

and that stuff about two sided?

it is a one sided, single composition hone.

One side is a hone and the other is lucite.

I just tried to figure a way to define its level of hardness and here is what I came up with.


It's SOOOOOO soft that you can make just the SLIGHTEST mark in it with a thumbnail.

A gouge that...

An old barber friend gave this to me, said he got it in barber college in Jacksonville FL.

For some reason the camera wanted to take pictures of a grey hone but this one is the exact color of the...