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If it's a Soft Arkansas I'd say lower - mid range most likely. I use my soft Arkie for setting bevels, minor micro-chip removal, or cleaning up 1K stria. Could also be a Hard Arkansas , which I would...

Lapping stone on an Arkansas? Nah. That's what killed my DMT. The best bet for anything Arkansas is loose SiC and a dollar store steel cookie sheet or some sort of glass plate or tile from the...

When it comes to Arkansas stones, color varies by quite a bit. Not all soft stones are white, they can also be yellow, green, pink, grey/blue, black etc. So there's nothing saying that either the...

Doesn't look quite like a Purple slate (Llyn Melynllyn) to me, but maybe it looks different in the hand than in the photo? Here's a few shots of mine for reference:

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Agreed that's better if you're going single grit stones. I probably should've mentioned somewhere in there that I had the 3/8 combination stone in mind to save a few pennies.

Gasman - don't be...

These guys are my go-to. They're within a few dollars of anywhere else I've looked. I went with Norton hones to save some coin, but that's relative. The biggest reason the single grit stones came in...