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A cheap metal Hacksaw Blade does wonders at cutting groves :)

http://straightrazorpalace.com/advanced-honing-topics/62970-one-stone-honing-lynn-glen.html


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Watch that Pigtail stroke, I tend to use on the naturals with a light slurry, I have put that to very good use on the Welsh Hones.. You can get a beatiful haze finsh that is soooooo even then go to...

Many people have tried many tests to prove Natural grit ratings, heck there are even different scales with Synthetics, many people can't tell you what grit rating a Norton 8k really is...

The only...

There are 3 of these Welsh hones

Grey(ish)
Purple(ish)
Green(ish)

None have a determined grit

so in the spirit of PHIG I started calling them WHIG's

You might want to read through this thread

http://straightrazorpalace.com/hones/80454-welsh-thuringian.html

and this thread
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Nobody is doubting that the hones work,,,

But the names are not proved accurate, they were just used ad hoc by the seller from other people's descriptions of what the stones resembled.. The grit...

Rod already gave you the "Solution" pun intended

Safe Oil :p

Smith's honing solution will give a stone the feel of Oil with out the risks, smell or clean up issues.. It is very cheap too :D ...