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The bottom line with the washitas is that all of them will finish a razor if you break them in. I never do any more with them than flatten them, but that can be involved if there is a lot of sway in...

I had a no 1 that was half mottled (pretty much on one end) and the other half mostly clear. I think they were hit and miss in terms of consistency, because I've seen pure white ones. I really liked...

I looked it up. Heavily alloyed with tungsten, chromium and vanadium. Definitely beyond the scope of washitas! The early tungsten high speed steels were actually quite nice, but they're not common...

There's one thing posted earlier in this thread that I thought I'd comment on since I'm here. The lilywhite and No 1 washitas are generally coarse "soft" washitas if they are labeled, unless they're...

Were they vanadium carbides? Turning tools are full of vanadium carbides. I don't like them too much, but they do wear slowly if you can manage to keep them in the matrix.

Even chromium carbides...

My daily shaver is a razor that's only been honed on a washita. I've never gotten that sort of jnat silk edge straight off of the washita, but I have a routine that works quite well.

Hone the...

Here is a Lie Nielsen A2 Iron that has been sharpened with a washita stone.

https://postimg.org/image/9bmy99vy57/

(this doesn't load on my work PC, but it's probably my filter). I can trim the...

Washitas will actually pull the carbide out of alloy steel with big carbide. I have pictures that I took here somewhere (I have a metallurgical scope). A trans stone follow up will help mitigate some...