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It's funny but all these different responses to this thread prove the thread :)

Natural stones by their very Nature will vary from stone to stone, mine to mine, vein to vein, shaft to shaft,...

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Since then we have found that you can get better results with the really hard scratchy PHIG's by treateing them like a Arkie...