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Many thanks for the response!

If nothing else, now I know what to call the tiny garnets in a Belgian coticule. :)

So, are the ideal characteristics for a natural razor finisher the following?
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Snow and an abundance of holidays has prevented me from getting the stone cut yet. Could happen any day, though. I still have hopes for getting a neat little hone out of it.

Took a little longer to get these pics than I thought. I forgot that it's dark when I leave for work and dark when I get home. :D

Natural lighting, dry stone. Click to enlarge.
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Wow - great posts. It's kind of late, so I'll just make a short reply and be back with better pics and more information tomorrow.

At first, it didn't seem like I could scratch it with a pocket...

This side I ended up using was very flat, but no, I don't think it had been cut before I found it and lapped it. It only looks that way now after several hours on about 3 meters of (now ruined) 80...

It's a big chunk of rock. With the right (diamond?) saw, one could probably get 4 or 5 hones out of it.

I really wanted to flatten one of its large faces, but after an hour or so with little...

I picked up a few rocks while walking in the nearby mountains with the intention of lapping them to see what I could see. Two turned out to be duds, but this one is much more interesting.

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