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I agree with most of Euclids thoughts, as long as its not completely dished out, lapping with 60 grit does not take long at all, however when I take mine up to fine grits of sandpaper as he stated, I...

If you use razors, and especially if you use a proper oil, I don't think you WILL ever need to lap an arkansas, maybe a soft ark... but like AlienEdge said, I rarely have to re set a bevel, I am luck...

I just use Norton oil... cheap easy to get, doens't smell and been around forever. You need something that prevents abrasion, water just doenst do it, not to mention good oil has a natural tenancy to...

Well said... some of my razors take better to a synthetic finish, it seems as though the arks have almost no effect on them.
I take my razors to 8 or 10k, sometims 12k just to see how it turns out,...

Yes my translucent black was VERY coarse, I asked the guy at the shop about it, he said he laps all his stones on a 220 grid wheel sander thingie... they definitely take some burnishing. cool thing...

in terms of hard-black-translucent as long as you use oil like you are supposed to, I see almost no need to re condition those surfaces almost ever! Just like Dave said. As people have stated in the...

Nice Arks! yours look really cool.

Do you use any soft or hard arks before the black finishers? I haven't had any luck with the softer arkansas, just synthetic finish up to the black.

oh yes definitely going to have to research before buying one. A loooot of research thanks for the tip. Perhaps I will just bug you guys about which one to buy when the time comes : )

.pif? haha lets go get it man! I have a "black translucent" from naturalwhetstones.com and after some break in, its a reeeaallly nice hone. Its like 80 or 90 after shipping for a 6x2x1 which isn't...

Yes prepping for me was just a few uses of other blades for this particular dans. I also have a Dan's pocket black ark, its semi translucent and is probably the finest ark I own, right out of the box...

heck yeah! It was just weird ya know... I was just sitting there barely looking at what I was doing half in the dark watching a movie, and a while later I decided to stop and feel the edge and BAM! ...

I looked for some new threads in the hone section, didn't see anything pertaining Arkansas.

For all you guys out there that have black arks laying around that you never liked for knives, and...