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Forgot to put in the above post that I also did a progression of stones that ended with a translucent arkansas, but the resulting edge was nowhere near as fine as the four finishing stones I did...

Well, I picked one of these up as well, wanted to reserve judgment on it until I was able to try it out.

So I took an old Sheffield wedge that I've used to test nearly all of my hones (tang says...

You should be able to tell which stone is finer by how polished the blade is, look at it under magnification, anything is better than nothing. And yes, I believe as a general rule for japanese...

I was under the impression that the others were newly mined, not cut from old stock. But then again I didn't research them when they were being discussed.

I only ask if these are worth it because there has been some speculation about the quality of the "new" Thuringians, and was wondering if these are the same thing, or really NOS and of higher quality...

Found a guy selling these stones and claims that they are newly cut from vintage pieces of the same stuff vintage thuringians/eschers were cut from. So essentially they are nos, just in a round about...