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"Just give me a home,
where the barber hones roam;

and the badger brushs,
come out to play,,,,,,"

:chapeau

Those surfaces look just fine to me,,,, nice looking hones.

I don't know what the surfaces look like, I only re-condidtioned the barber hones in my collection that really needed it. Most barber hones do not, that I run across. I would not go the vaseline...