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So, I just remembered about this one. I forgot I had this little guy.
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It wasn't Dad's. I can't remember where I got it. Not sure what it is either. It seems finer than the soft...

This has been mainly and exercise in discovery of old ways but it's becoming a real adventure. My final test is to dry shave a small patch on my chin where the hair is most course. I usually try to...

...oh yeah, if you read that ignore my rant at the end. I figured I was going to get the business about it and got a little walter matthau/ grumpy old men about it I guess.

I have a method I've been working out. I posted about it in Steve's Arkansas thread, kind of a tutorial...ish. I've refined it some since then but I can go all the way from beville set to finish with...

It isn't what I would call translucent but if you hold it to the light you can see light through it sort of. I flattened it and burnished the one side and left the other side the way it was after I...

So I posted about this little stone in Steve's "Arkansas" thread.
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I'm still not sure what this little bitty stone is, maybe hard white, maybe true hard but it is just magical. I...

Thanks guys. Yes I think they were in a set but probably a clear lidded box if I remember correctly. Maybe I'm wrong about the box though. The one on the block of wood is still in the box. These...

Well I'm not sure If I have a good handle on that referentially. To me all arks seem pretty hard but I think this one seems fairly soft compared to most of them that I'm familiar with at least which...

Thanks Aaron. Maybe this is a fools errand but I have been knocking around this idea of one stone honing or maybe using all natural stones or, alternatively, using a stone like that cinder block...

So I got the wood block mounted ark of my Dad's burnished pretty fine for finishing a while back but then I started thinking about bevel setting and middle stage honing on one so I dug a couple more...