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You can (use them without doing anything), the word "shouldn't" reminds me of an old lady with a ruler wagging their finger at someone. Some of the stones will not give what we expect, though. a...

Reminds me of woodworking forums. At some point, we're just looking to shave and do it comfortably, and hopefully we get far enough along that we're not looking to hone all the time (because it...

I can't imagine why anyone would get in trouble for sharpening a chisel or lapping the back of a chisel on an arkansas stone. Sharpening a quality hunting knife would do the same thing, though.
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I have bought stones from:
* Halls (not flat, fairly coarse - I heard they have improved to at least hit or miss on the flatness, but their prices have gone up, too)
* Dan's (the only stones that...

Soft and hard were it originally. Hard was a black or a translucent stone (there was no need to state that a light colored hard was a translucent stone because there weren't main line catalog "hard"...

This isn't true. The novaculite is about the same hardness as iron carbides, maybe slightly softer. The new stones often have mill marks on them, and since the stone matrix is all the same material,...

I had one that was filled with red, pink and gray lines. It looked really nice, and I should've probably kept it. There was someone on ebay a couple of years ago for a very short period of time,...