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I agree having looked at the tables at Dan's honing site for Arkansas stones. The brown colored stones are in the "True Hard Arkansas grade" category are are extra fine grit at 1200+. Believe this...

The first has orange specs on all sides. Not dual hones/combo. The second one is hard, and color is a butterscotch. May have some oil on it as well. Believe it is vintage as in well worn, Arkansas...

Dave, thanks for this info. So, you think both of these hones are India stones? Did I get that right from your second paragraph?

Thanks for the additional opinions and input on this stone. The link provided by sharptonn sounds exactly like this one. Very hard stone, would eat my DMT 325. Water runs off it. Definitely has seen...

Well, that makes it 2 for Arkie to 2 for India. It does look similar to some of the India pics I've seen posted in this forum. Same with Arkie pics though. I did boil it in water for 20 minutes and...

Carl, I will try boiling it and see what that does. Water doesn't penetrate it at all. It is fairly dark. Believe one of the other stones in this lot was a hard white Arkansas stone. This one...

Can anyone help me identify this vintage hone? I received it last week as part of a five hone lot on eBay. I was able to identify three of the five hones, but had no clue on this one. It doesn't...