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If one looks like the pores are sparse, it should be fine cutting (you can often see in the pictures that stones like that have some translucence at the corners, they look waxy).

If the stone is...

For razors they work as a nice prefinisher (the finest ones that can be found will finish a razor, though, but they are not common). For tools, they can work legitimately as the only stone you use,...

Those are really my favorite types, the butterscotch ones that are not as pure as the lilywhites. My favorite is one that looks very much like yours, but that's in a box that is carved with a...

It is absolutely a cool stone. You can finish a razor on them with some skill, but if it's found to be not suitable for razors, absolutely 100% keep it to sharpen scissors, knives, tools, anything,...

It's a washita stone, probably on the finer side, but it will still be quite a bit more aggressive than a trans ark.

The finer washita stones will have some translucence at the corners.