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Your edges look fine. Damage would look back at you, and sometimes even that is superficial in a shave, or strops off without materially thickening an edge. I've got a microscope that shines light...

Mine doesn't have anything that significant, if I can remember, I'll take a picture of it tonight. My stamps never last long, either, btw. I've never gotten a stone that I didn't use.

Still, I...

I'd leave the back of the stone unfinished. I think you will enjoy the front enough that you want to preserve what the back looks like and allow it to be subject to dirt, etc, that the top will not...

Presume that's one of the bunch of shoubus going around right now that are described as "shoubu damascus asagis"?

Nice looking bunch of rocks. I got one of the super hard shoubu damascus stones...