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I would suggest, if I may, trying both options. I mean after for a blade and instead of for another and see which is preferable.

What occurs to me Sham is the differences in results everyone agrees there are in coticules and other natural stones. Another case in point the celebrated Nakayama. Why not differences in the results...

Here is an old post showing Sham's CF hones. What I found is that the photos can be deceiving because they tend to lighten the color of the stones. They really are olive green IME with figuring in...

I really don't know what a Turkey stone looks like. If it has the purple and the black specks as well as being a greenish color it probably is a Charnley. :hmmm:

I know from getting one from hi_bud that the photos don't always accurately show the true color of the stones. I don't see any of that different coloring going through the stone. On some of them it...

It doesn't look like a CF to me but I'm not an expert either. :shrug:

I only used mine with water and with slurry sometimes. I found that I liked doing a slurry and then diluting as I went as Bart would do with a coticule. I shy away from using oil. I just prefer...

The stone is probably 100 years old ? A lot of iron sharpened on that bad boy ...... and no lapping plate. :)

If that stone could talk it could tell some tales. Mine are green and the slurry is milky. It looks like a Charnley to me. :tu

Big +1 on the hone club ! Nice Charnley sparq. Here are my two Charnleys. My bottom one looks to me like it is colored more like the one in your photo. I'll tell you for sure that sometimes the photo...