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That's a strange looking animal. What is it?

It is the only stone that I know of that can actually set a bevel and finish a razor. Not finish like a thuri, but it can finish an edge.

Very sensitive to:
* steel hardness
* surface...

I love the kiitas....but I sure do hate paying for them!

It's more a condition of the stone than it is the lube. If you scuff one up with a diamond hone, it will cut fast. If you don't, it will cut slowly and do more burnish than cut (but never super fine...

100% agree. I bevel set with one, then use another one that's not been lapped to follow up and then right to jnats or a trans or black ark.

I never get strange behavior with the edge when I bevel...

That is a super lovely looking washita.

Small unknown hone (I'd guess nakayama, but I'd like to see the skin and it's mounted). Generic Koma nagura and then tomonagura from a stone that I received that had been broken before and reglued...

I agree that that subgroup works, but I've had a couple of those and always felt like they were marginal in the world of razor hones. But you're right, there's a huge difference between them and the...

Carborundum stones are pretty bad for razors unless they're really fine. Their cut depth is more suitable for high speed steel or something that doesn't fracture.

I've not used one on a razor,...

That's how two of the people I know got it, but unlike most of the FHA horror stories, they got acute toxicity applying it, and not in breathing dust from chipping paint or eating the chips.

The...

At any rate, I worry (in theory, I'm more of the belief that you can do things that are a little unhealthful from time to time and not worry about any of it, because we are all terminal!!) more about...

We're comparing a dust that is an irritant, but that has no link to cancer, to a solid (the lead) assuming it stays as a solid and is not ingested. If any dust becomes airborne or it's ingested by...

Not unless the chromium oxide is red in color. The type III (green) is relatively harmless since it's not water soluble.

Bad if reloading and breathing vapor, looks relatively innocent otherwise, right?

I do know several people who cast their own bullets and who now don't because they had high lead levels. I always...