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Wear from the previous user... I did mean the wear at the spine. I know I got into the stabilizer at the edge a couple of times while honing. I'll get the heel rounded more before I give this...

Here's the back side before restoration
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The blade doesn't have a warp that I can detect. It think it just had a bunch of wear and uneven honing. You could see it in the original bevel. ...

I did some heel reshaping, guess not quite enough. The hone wear on the stabilizer is from the previous user. It had a pretty significant amount of hone wear before I restored it. I just didn't...

Test shaved this morning and I was fairly successful with the Mois. Nice shave, though I'm sure I didn't get the edge a good as it could be. Two layers of tape gave me a 15.5 hone angle and the...

I think I figured out what was wrong on my first try with this stone. I decided to burnish it some more with a softer carbon steel knife blade and felt some roughness at the bevels. I hadn't...

Here's the pics SHD.

It's a little more translucent than I can capture in the photos. The camera I was using was having fits with exposure in full dark, so I had to leave a little room light on. ...

I did a couple hundred laps last night on one of my better edges to see if there was an improvement. I loved the feel of the blade on the stone, it was super smooth and had great feed back. I...

I'll take that pic for you when it's ready for the blades. When it first arrived I could just barely see light through it, it was also light out so...

While I was sanding on the edges I noticed...

Some 60 grit PSA on a stick and a little 220 with a cork put a bevel around the edge. Now it's time to start polishing/burnishing.

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I was a little worried about how the 4" width would be to hold, but the shape of the bottom fits in my hand nicely. I'm really looking forward to giving it a try.


SHD: I've liked the look of...

I've been thinking of getting one of these since I first saw one posted. Finally called to find out what they had available for a true hard stone around 8x2. They had an 8x4 and a 7x3.75, so I went...