Recent content by ables

I've owned atleast 3 dozen hard arkansas stones but never had one quite like this norton. Unique color, pores, and translucency. I knew it would be a really sweet knife stone and am glad it has a good home with fancy knives to sharpen!

Here's the German razor hone rabbit hole: https://forum-der-rasur.de/forum/forums/steine-und-riemen.69/ One of the threads on the Troutstone/saxon/frankonian: Die etwas anderen Thüringer (Forelle und sächsischer Ölstein) One post says they were marketed as "Nearly as hard and serviceable as an...

These Saxonian stones seem to be really rare outside of Germany! On the German razor forums there seem to be a few collectors. This was the first one I've identified in years for sale online and am really glad you noticed too! They seem like the OG novaculite type stone before arkansas stones...

I really like my King 300, it is a great cheap low wear rougher water stone. I find I need to give it a quick SiC 80/120 lapping every few knives to keep it cutting well, otherwise it can get pretty fine, almost same as a 1k stone. I use crystolon and india stones if I need something rougher...

If I had to guess this is a little piece of ceramic. I think most barber hones were some variation on fired ceramic stone. I assume the masterminds at American Hone Company made the little stone purposeful to work with the Frictionite. In the Frictionite instructions it says a normal person...

Nice stones, I have an old queer creek that I like alot. It functions so much like a 1-1.5k waterstone for me it it is shocking. Kind of a harder king stone! It self slurrys some and the slurry feels like grains of sand rolling around which is cool. It can get glazed but a quick rub on a dmt...

Im not sure if you figured it out, but I am 95% certain that the small slurry stone you have here is a Frictionite barber hone "rubber stone" for cleaning/refreshing the stone. Or atleast an American hone company rubber stone. Here is mine I got out of a barber mixed lot. It actually is a...

Hello thread. I have a few washita stones too, they are by far my favorite knife stone. To my hands nothing beats the perfect steel ripping friction on a fresh washita for most blades. Here are a few of mine. Norton LW and a once dirty stone I degreased which is a bit bigger and faster. The...

Haha, Hellooo, I actually made an account to post over there.

Thank you. Both are translucent arkansas stones as kingshapton mentioned. The brown/butter one was completely covered in old oil swarf dirt and needed to be cleaned. The white yellow was pristine and sold as a "Japanese waterstone" haha My favorite finishers for both knives and straight razors...

Here are two of my favorite stones. Wonderful arkansas rocks I am fortunate to have.

Hello, I've been a sharpening stone enthusiast for a long time. Which obviously led me to this forum. Which I have often read. I do enjoy knives too but atleast currently prefer rocks! Nicer knives often mean less sharpening, which for some Is a positive but for me a negative! Thank you.