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Yeah I just meant keep her knives & stuff sharpened for her. :rofl2:

Take good care of that rock...

And use it to tame a woman.

You're right but the word toxic is still sounds a lot worse than it should or could. It's all semantics, but still...

I think a large part of it is new people being scared off by the word toxic. It's a shame we can't make the world simply start calling them inclusions.

Yeah as long as you can skim a blade over where it was removed without damaging its edge the stone is still perfectly good to use. :)

I believe that 100%. Even a living national treasure like yoshindo yoshihara has to remove toxic inclusions from his stones. Nobody is immune, at any price, least of all us foreigners.

We are on topic. That was an example of how things like this are kept traditional in japan. Or have I diverted it into steel, smelters or iron ore? We might have 5 topics now.

I'd be amazed if they were allowed to do it any other way but traditionally. Just like Japanese swords are made from tamahagane, which is only smelted in a traditional tatara, which still uses the...

Nope, work is never complete. We'll come up with something else for you to do :)

Not sure if there's anything like this thread in the library. I think it'd be nice to get it compiled into a short article.