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I’m the same - loads of old vitrified SiC and AlOx stones in job lots with one or two more ‘interesting’ stones. But as you say; they’re certainly not to be underestimated for knives. I use SiC and...

Yeah it's a really weird one that coti, it certainly did need lapping when I got it, but it's just really coarse - quite a lot coarser than any of my others. Absolutely great knife stone, and perhaps...

Funnily enough I have a Vermio hone on its way to me soon (courtesy of a member here), looking forward to trying!

Noted re - glycerine and water. It wasn't something I'd heard of before starting...

Haha... yeah the HAD's bad eh! Still it give me lots of fun things to play around with, while learning more about razor honing / restoring :).

For instance I haven't yet managed to master all the...

Ah cheers! I was quite pleased with how they came out, especially the last one, and frankly rather surprised that I could get a nice usable edge on razors I'd sanded down and then honed from scratch....

Interesting... I always use mine with oil, because that aggressive cutting is great for knives (and indeed removing dings like I was doing yesterday!). But I'll certainly try using water and soap...

And actually on the subject of butterscotch Washitas - here’s a grubby old ebay stone I got a couple of days ago that after a couple of days soak turned out to be a funky two-tone Washita, which I...

Ah very nice! I've got one old Washita that remains defiantly caramel/butterscotch no matter how much I degrease it, also very hard and highly translucent for a Washita, though I don't know if that's...

Here FWIW is 'my end of the kitchen', that's probably about half of the total I guess, maybe a bit under...

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A lot of my 'work' sharpening is done on a handful of synthetics permasoaking...

Haha! Yeah storage and travel is certainly the downside for doing fixed handles. Atm I just store them on their sides on a shelf. The balance point for each is pretty much exactly at the start of the...

I can certainly do niche stones - I have quite a few kooky things, and just started a thread on the sub forum with some recent acquisitions that I'm not entirely sure of. But here's a few favourites...

I've only done three, so be kind, but here goes...

These were all fairly old and rusty, so needed a fair bit of blade work. But the thing I really wanted to do was to see what a traditional...

Thanks for the welcome guys, I look forward to learning more from people here! I'm still pretty new to razor honing; I didn't find the transition from knife sharpening as difficult as some people say...

I've been reading here for a little while, and know a few members from other places, so thought I'd say hello properly.

I'll probably largely be talking about stones, of which I have far too many....