After seeing some others on here, I asked Steve Kirschman at Dan's Whetstones to find me a nice hard black primitive cut about the size of an aircraft carrier. Well, he did, and for a ridiculous price too. I just got off the phone with his wife Kim in the office, and the one on the left is on the way to me: 14"x4"x1" inches of razor finishing glory. As the bottom is unfinished, I may mount it on a fine piece of wood and make it the center-piece of my coffee table lol (with a large can of WD-40 beside it of course!).
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I don't know if the 12x5" one on the right is still available or not. You might want to call them if you're interested. Steve was very patient with me through a couple weeks of phone calls and texts. They are a real old-school family business, and I have been wanting to do business with them for some time.
And so the lonely vigil beside the mailbox begins-sigh...