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Pleqse explain burnisihing an arkansas. Are you embedding metal particles to clog the pores so it wont cut as fast?

Definately not as smooth as my arkansas surgical black. And for reference, this website seems intent upon turning every picture i upload upside down, so the black strip across the top of that picture...

Heres a better picture of my surgical black. 171821

That white spot being the light reflecting.

After lapping on ceramic barbers hone thats pretty course. 171819

The factory surface. 171818

It depends. If you leave the factory milling on them, then yes it will feel rough. I lapped mine with a ceramic barbers hone and its smooth as glass now

Dan's wheststones is where all of my arkansas came from. They mine and mill them.

Believe me my surgical black is definately quite a bit finer than my transluscent

It was $17 from dans whetstones

Thanks. I actually made those scales this morning, i got sik of the old ones that made me want to barf just lookin at em. I posted a thread showin how i made em with a few tools , coping saw, hand...

No thats a strutz and clutto that i made custom cedar scales for!

Before the transluscent? I hear people thinking transluscent is the finest alot. According to Dan's whetstones' website, surgical black is finer than transluscent arkansas. It feels finer to my...

I use a mudium sized surgical black from dans whetstones for my razor honing. Right to the leather strop from there! I lapped it on an old ceramic barbers hone, made it like glass. 171695