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The only rock I can think of with that kind of stigma is the (stone I can't mention either)* or whatever it's called.



* ILR?

I couldn't resist.

I figure the King 8K is in the same ball park as any other (good) 8K hone. I mean Norton 4/8 combination and Naniwa 8 are 80 bucks, the Norton 8K or Naniwa 3/8 are 90. And then there's the shapton at...

Seems to me like if it wasn't manufactured that way, you'd be sending a lot of good hone down the drain trying to reshape it like that. But who knows, if it works out better for ya, or somehow ends...

Looks intentional, but I can't think of any advantages a convex hone could have. You'd only be making contact with a very small portion of the blade with each stroke, which I would imagine leads to...