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Same here. But it's always nice to expand the options a little bit for when the next wave hits!

Sometimes hanging around here makes it hard on the old credit card. Got a PM/lead on a stone that's been on my want list but hard to find considering the Yellow Lake mine has been closed over 90...

Got a small bonus at work, and decided to fill out my line of Shapton Kuromakus. Nothing to get too excited over since I have plenty of middle-grit options, but I have a 1K, 2K, and 5K on the way....

I don't know how I broke the original tags. They looked fine in the post preview. :shrug:

But yes, I fixed them. By re-uploading all of them. Master of the ninja edits. :matrix:

Also that .1...

Had another set of orders come in. Ferric Oxide from Kremer pigments, a Glass Barber Hone from Ebay, and 3 Barber Hones picked up from a member here:

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Ferric Oxide gets all over the dang...

As if I didn't have enough junk to hone a razor on...

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Yep, glass hone. If I had really thought that one through, I have a 18 x 5.5 x .4" glass hone sitting just a couple of...

I think the CrOx erased them. I've used that stuff after the N8K, but it's a whole other animal following 12K.

Let's not forget a whole new understanding of what 'light pressure' is. Because I thought I was using that before. I think I was wrong.

Thanks for the run down on the Kuromaku 12K. It was a big...

Got a better test session in with the Kuromaku 12K tonight. Dropped back to the Norton 4K, took the blade through the 8K. Stropping between hones. Test shaved after the 8K - one of the best edges...

Nice! I almost like the 12K enough to start working my way back down the Kuromaku line. I kind of like the hardness and feedback, it's almost like honing on natural stones.

Hehehe, agreed - fast stone. I think I only did 10 laps, no pressure, and saw a significant difference over the 8k.

If your Norton 8k is gritty then I might suggest lapping it. I meant that the...

First impression - harder than my Nortons, definitely splash & go. Feedback is a tad grainy. The Norton 8K is softer and smoother. But the Shapton is clearly finer. Weird how that works out.

It's...

Had a few boxes come in today, it was pretty exciting until I had a revelation. Among the boxes was my package from Japanese Natural Stones. But just a moment ago I was looking at the picture I saved...

I can't remember which one it was, but I know one of them actually had a small leather working aisle. I found it when I was scouring the city for small brass rod, washers, and a 4 oz. pinning hammer....

I ordered a piece of linen as a replacement secondary for my SRD Buffalo strop. When I did, I inquired if they also sold the bits and tackle required to make a strop, because I didn't really want the...

Agreed, that is one heck of a razor.

I won't get excited about the rock until I've got it in hand to determine if it's a hone, or a hone shaped shelf ornament. But it is kinda pretty, so if it's...

The rock collection grows...

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6 x 2 Shoubudani from JNS. I'm going to need to add another hone shelf if it keeps up at this rate...

Time to look into a PO box. Small packages go there, not to the house. Pickup at your convenience, discard packaging at another location.

"That old thing? I've had it forever!"

Agreed with this. Unless a set of scales isn't salvagable, or would be more work to salvage than replace, I let them be. Most of my vintage blades even sport a little of the black pitting that was...

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Found for the right price at the usual gettin' place (ebay). Perhaps not the fanciest Wade & Butcher out there, but I'll finally have one to call mine, I'm kind of excited.

Early Christmas to me! Special delivery from both Ardennes and ZY today:

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Once I have them lapped and surfaced, the testing shall begin! Hmm...need subjects...

That could be one of the most awesome calendars I've ever seen! :roflmao

Just made the discovery that you can track a China Post package through the USPS. That's a handy piece of information.

Apparently my ZY Hone has left the Connecticut processing facility, and will...

Contacted Ardennes, 175 x 50 mm standard grade coticule inbound.

International shipping from China, so it'll be here somewhere between Dec. 20 and next month, depending on if customs thinks I bought a brick of Chinese IED I guess. :rofl2:

But when I've got it...