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Like it! I've seen one or two that would finish a razor just fine. There's one on ebay that's about 6 inches long that barely has any pores in it, but it is most certainly a washita, it has the waxy...

It'd be interesting to hear from dans what most of their market is. When you go around woodworking stores, there are tons of them that have 1/2 inch thick stones from dans. Razor users would be a...

Neither do I, but just a hunch. If they put them on their page, they could market them for 2/3rds of bench stone price and I'll bet people would buy them.

But it would also cut into their...

I wish they stocked some. It's not like I need stones, but I wouldn't mind a few hunks of their rejects. I already have two of their bona fide 8x2 bench stones (black and trans).

I'm just too lazy...

We woodworkers (not necessarily me) are often catalog buyers, and not too adventurous.

A lot of the woodworking crowd that's out there is incapable of using anything that isn't matched to a...

Agree. They label it as hard, but it's a tweener stone. If you're lucky, it might be a fine washita. It should pre-finish a razor, though.

When I get old axes, which I don't do too often, but sometimes (old axes have some geometry that new axes don't - most notably a bulge in their cheek that makes them easier to release from wood, a...

I can't say much about a barber hone other than that I do as little on the surface of one as possible. If they're in relatively decent condition, I don't do anything other than clean them and use...

What did you do years ago to wake up the coarse stone? On woodworking sites, people get upset because the soft arkansas stone will begin to cut slowly as it goes to sleep, and they put it away and...

What is your assessment of what it does after a 12k superstone? I had one of those years ago for tools, but sold it before I started shaving. (I do have a gok 20, a sp 13k, and at one point had about...

yes. If you call dans, they will tell you that the black is their finest stone, too, but I haven't found that to be the case. both their black and translucent white stones are very fine stones and...

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Agate is probably a more accurate description.

I had...

In my opinion (and this is only opinion, because I have no proof) once you get that skating feeling, you're in the land of polish instead of cut, and I like to do another dozen or two laps (depending...

If the stone is really well settled in (polishing more than cutting), 2k synthetic to black or trans ark will be a big jump. You may have some success with it anyway if it smooths the edge, but I...

I have had good luck with them in a cycle of oilstones where they are the coarsest and the next to coarsest (the first stone agitated with a diamond hone and the second allowed to settle and never...

Yes, if you're looking for a finisher, put your money elsewhere.

One aside - if you're finishing an edge with a black or trans ark, the washita is a fantastic setup stone for that because it does...

It is either a hard arkansas or a washita. The density will tell you which. If the density is below 2.3 specific gravity, it's probably a washita, especially since it's devoid of mottling (which...

Give it a rip. I don't know what your blade is, but a cheap angle grinder blade (one of those diamond coated things that are less than 10 bucks) would easily do the job, too. If you have a tile saw...

Plaster of paris for the bedding. Do you have a belt sander? If you do, you can make a true edge on the right side of that black pretty easily and then chamfer or round the top. They look great.

Super NICE! I love the bone colored translucents.

That's a giant piece of rock!

I worked up three razors last night from bevel set in about a half hour (using a coarse washita, a broken in washita and a translucent). It's becoming my favorite way to set up a new razor. A coarse...

They are, to me, as good as anything else once you learn to condition them (fine stones fine, and coarse stones with a little bit of bite). Nothing more durable, either! You can boil them if you...

Small price to pay, well, unless those are brand new purple belts or something. I always get my belts at a flea market because I do something like what we're talking about with them before I wear...

What you're seeing on the edge there is exactly why when I get a jasper slab, the first thing I do is mill one true edge on it. Otherwise those little depressions and irregularities just put dings...