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Hatzicho - I know you know this, but I just wanted to point out to everyone that I am not trying to steal this thread! Folks - Hatzicho asked me to respond in a PM, so please forgive me if it looks...

Nearly all of them, Martin - I try to keep a variety of widths to work on different blades according to what sort of defect the blade has. The most used ones still have dried slurry on them, such as...

It's a great stone, Dave. It is a hard/translucent white arkansas, very hard and glassy and requires quite a number of laps. It's main use is for very warped blades - I have made one of the thin...

Now wouldn't that be something - guess we will never know, though!

Regards,
Neil

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It's not quite as green as I thought, but it appears a darker green when wet.

Not the whole collection, Martin - there are more than twice this number, but that would have cluttered up the table too much, plus I left out all the diamond plates and the synthetics as they aren't...

Minty with an aftertaste of rust, perhaps?

Regards,
Neil

Now I've got to find the darn thing! Honestly, it's like a graveyard of tombstones for Borrowers in here.... :)

Regards,
Neil

I have a similar hone, very old, set on a wooden paddle with a handle - probably dates to the last half of the 1800s. It is quite thin - about 8mm thick - and although it looks and feels hard and...