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Re: This is sort of a loaded situation... () David Weaver
If I had 20, i'd just start dealing them out. As of now, I think I have about 6, and two are "normal" and the rest oddballs.
Best place to look for them is ebay (if you can't look locally - I'm sure they show up for a few dollars at flea markets as they were super common stones - even my dad had one without knowing it).
Try for one that you can tell is a washita (earwax type color and look mottled in with some white, and if you can see across a corner in the pictures, they have sort of a waxy look at the edge) - and try for flat. I've learned to flatten them with a belt sander idler pretty quickly, but not much else is quick, and they smell like fiery death when flattening them.
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- Sharpening Stone Ominbus - here we go
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- Black Sedimentary Stone *PIC*
- Norton Queer Creek *PIC*
- Purple Welsh Slate *PIC*
- Owyhee Jasper *PIC*
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- Gray China (Guangxhi?) natural waterstone *PIC*
- Linde A - Paraffin Buffing Bar *PIC*
- Try bee wax
- Fine buffing compound
- one other side benefit
- Also with iron oxide bar
- Picture of the "stone" *PIC*
- Fine buffing compound
- The real Llyn Idwall *PIC*
- Black Hone Slate *PIC*
- Smiths Hard Arkansas *PIC*
- Japanese "Barber Oilstone" *PIC*
- Slurried Trans Ark.. *PIC*
- Am I understanding......
- Re: Am I understanding......
- This is sort of a loaded situation...
- Re: This is sort of a loaded situation...
- The other real issue with japanese finishers..
- Re: This is sort of a loaded situation...
- Re: This is sort of a loaded situation...
- Re: This is sort of a loaded situation...
- Re: This is sort of a loaded situation...
- Re: This is sort of a loaded situation...
- The other real issue with japanese finishers..
- Now I am more confused
- Re: This is sort of a loaded situation...
- Re: Am I understanding......
- This is sort of a loaded situation...
- Picture of the stone *PIC*
- Re: Am I understanding......
- Extra Fine India Stone *PIC*
- Sigma Power 13k *PIC*
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- Llyn Idwall *PIC*
- Turkish Oilstone *PIC*
- Dursol (Autosol) Metal Polish *PIC*
- Tying up loose polishes - Autosol *PIC*
- pic of the dursol *PIC*
- (this one is good enough for everyone)
- pic of the dursol *PIC*
- LV Green / Formax Microfine *PIC*
- Another White Alundum Japanese Stone *PIC*
- Very expensive (to me) japanese natural *PIC*
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- Coticules - Fine and Coarse *PIC*
- Unknown Japanese White Alundum *PIC*
- Hand American 0.5 micron Green Chrome Ox *PIC*
- The purpose of the omnibus...
- question for David
- Supremely Fine Japanese Natural Razor Stone *PIC*
- Practical question
- Re: Practical question + another regarding scale..
- sorry, addressed differently
- Re: Practical question
- sorry, addressed differently
- Fine White Okudo Suita *PIC*
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