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On a whim two days ago, I prepared a new razor (new as in never honed or bevel set) only on the brown stone. Someone used it for razors before I bought it, but they had completely allowed the surface...

Thanks. I don't think I have a problem or anything, but I think I could probably do this with at least 5 sets of arkansas stones without any repeats. One thing that I do that I noticed a lot of...

One more example of what looks like vs. what is. This is the surface of a tsushima hone, which is a middle stone like an aoto (japanese). It's black, so everything on it is reflective. I just got it...

It's a visual microscope that claims to be 200x. Maybe there is a way to make it work that fine, but I think it's a bit less fine than that. It does allow you to see things at the edge that you can't...

It is one of the green chinese stones that are ubiquitous on ebay and alibaba. 8x2, about $80 or a little less if bought right.

Too slow to be useful in anything other than a follower for another...

Pictures of the stone surfaces:

Soft arkansas:
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Washita (most would look more porous than this):
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Hard Novaculite Surface:
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Given the recent threads about hard arkansas, I had two razors to set bevels on and hone today - a friodur 451 and a razor marked griffon 99 (though I think it's much newer than the mark would...