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Thanks Neil. I'm a bit confused though - from what I've read, these white marking sticks are called 'French chalk' and are not in fact chalk as we know it - instead they are solid talc....

Guys I've updated the title of this thread, as I've just discovered that the marking stick that I used and am talking about in this thread is actually solid talc - magnesium silicate. It's called...

Well, it's strange. It's not so soft that it just crumbles away.. I mean it keeps it's surface form quite well. We're talking stropping, so it's a light touch with spine leading.. I would say with...

Hey Guys,

Well, it went like this: while lapping some of the 'Zulu Grey' hones that a few folks here have ordered from me, I was looking at this soapstone marking stick that I had bought to mark...