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That's OK. Ekretz told you the same thing I did, and there's nothing wonkish about it.

You're certainly entitled to do whatever you'd like, but I wouldn't take the resale value risk or the...

Just as I suspected:

522.58 cubic centimeters, 1385 grams. Specific gravity, 2.65.

Almost the theoretical maximum. For you guys out there measuring novaculite, if you get above high 2.6s,...

I agree with that, too, and not in a japanese mystical sense, but in a fundamental sense that taking a piece of rock from the ground and rubbing it on steel and then rubbing that on your face...

I am particular about these, too, I will admit that, and curious about SG. People like me would ideally have an SG attached to each stone we bought, or browsed. I checked the density of the stones I...

I have a hard from them that is SG 2.5. It is a decent stone but it is not in the class with a good true hard stone (they know that, which is why they sold it as a hard, and inexpensively).

A...

Well, if you go to a retailer, you can get the stones a little cheaper than dans sells them on their website, and that means that the black will be less than the true hard and the trans will be close...

Funny thing about these two stones together (they are both the full thickness type, which dan's calls a range of 3/4 to 1". The trans is about 3/4, the black is about an inch - makes a big difference...

Will do - razors only for these stones once they're broken in with the hard bits of a japanese chisel (the reason for the filth on the trans stone).

The trans stone had some tooth out of the box,...

I don't know if those terms are universal, but gloat is when you dig something out of the woodwork for pennies, and neener is less good, meaning you bought at market price. This is a neener.

I'm...