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This functions at a 10K level, perhaps a bit better. Aren't Schwedensteins usually thin and glued to paddles? I still think silkstone is the best id for this I have so far but IDK. All I know is it...

Do silkstones ever have banding more defined than this example that has its box? How hard or soft are they?

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BTW, this was the box it came in. It was a very deep brown/black when I got hold of it. It had to go for numerous reasons. I was never going to get the hone out of it without damaging it,...

Surfaces post-high grit finishing. It drew some additional detail out of the rock. Stone has glittery particulate in it btw.
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I maxed out the honing surfaces today. Feedback of blade on stone has improved drastically. I took a shave ready generic solingen blade that was done conservatively on synths and gave it 200...

I will say in the one brief test with a generic solingen I have been left intrigued. The feedback coming off the thing is somewhat unnerving, but it definitely feels like it has major potential. I'm...

I wish I took a photo of my start point. Really old. It was reinforced in spots with 1800s cut nails which had just as much real patina as the rest. Not even nice patina, the savage kind that is a...

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No, it's definitely not BBW. I have enough of that stuff to know that much. The slurry is all wrong. I lapped the side wo the banding and it feels extremely fine. It also seemed a touch harder than...

It doesn't feel coarse. It's quite silky, even at the current level of finish. I'm pretty sure I could pull more out of it in that department.

It was in a box that was definitely late 1800s and going by mutual patina, was in there the entire time.

IDK, just got it today. I dug up a piece of 180 and it flattened out quicker than any natural I have encountered in my life. Like synth waterstone at 220 style fast. Blackish gray slurry raining off...

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Came in a box that was late 1800s given the style of some of the nails and pins in there to keep it intact. Box had to go through as it was caked in oil and what appeared to be ancient pine tar. It...