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Our next door neighbors are elderly. I help them out with a few minor things - I take their trash and recycling bins out on trash day and put them away. Stuff like that. Recently, he asked me if I could sharpen a carving blade for him - he's a wood carver and makes these cool figurines. No problem, I fixed him up.

Today, he said he had something for me. He had an old cardboard box with duct tape on both ends. In circa 1950s font it said "A Cutting Tool Is No Better Than It's Edge." Inside was a Norton Hard Arkansas HB6 translucent stone. It's marked with a Bear logo. I don't know anything else about it - he's had it so long he doesn't remember where or when he got it. It was only used a couple of times, he said he didn't have the patience to try to sharpen anything with it. I checked it with a straight edge - it appears to be flat. I'm pretty jazzed about this!
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I soaked it overnight in SG, no sign of oil. I'm putting it in water with dish detergent today and I'll check flatness with a diamond plate. Captaincaed advised me in another forum to take it out of the SG as it may remove or fade the logos.
 
Koop said:
Our next door neighbors are elderly. I help them out with a few minor things - I take their trash and recycling bins out on trash day and put them away. Stuff like that. Recently, he asked me if I could sharpen a carving blade for him - he's a wood carver and makes these cool figurines. No problem, I fixed him up.

Today, he said he had something for me. He had an old cardboard box with duct tape on both ends. In circa 1950s font it said "A Cutting Tool Is No Better Than It's Edge." Inside was a Norton Hard Arkansas HB6 translucent stone. It's marked with a Bear logo. I don't know anything else about it - he's had it so long he doesn't remember where or when he got it. It was only used a couple of times, he said he didn't have the patience to try to sharpen anything with it. I checked it with a straight edge - it appears to be flat. I'm pretty jazzed about this!
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I soaked it overnight in SG, no sign of oil. I'm putting it in water with dish detergent today and I'll check flatness with a diamond plate. Captaincaed advised me in another forum to take it out of the SG as it may remove or fade the logos.
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Sweet!

Your guess is probably pretty much spot on btw. I believe this logo is likely somewhere between 1955-1965 ish.
 
Koop said:
Our next door neighbors are elderly. I help them out with a few minor things - I take their trash and recycling bins out on trash day and put them away. Stuff like that. Recently, he asked me if I could sharpen a carving blade for him - he's a wood carver and makes these cool figurines. No problem, I fixed him up.

Today, he said he had something for me. He had an old cardboard box with duct tape on both ends. In circa 1950s font it said "A Cutting Tool Is No Better Than It's Edge." Inside was a Norton Hard Arkansas HB6 translucent stone. It's marked with a Bear logo. I don't know anything else about it - he's had it so long he doesn't remember where or when he got it. It was only used a couple of times, he said he didn't have the patience to try to sharpen anything with it. I checked it with a straight edge - it appears to be flat. I'm pretty jazzed about this!
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I soaked it overnight in SG, no sign of oil. I'm putting it in water with dish detergent today and I'll check flatness with a diamond plate. Captaincaed advised me in another forum to take it out of the SG as it may remove or fade the logos.
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Nice score!
 
After soaking in dish detergent/water - I started in Simple Green, but heeded Captaincaed's advice and switched it - no oil was evident. I'm wondering if this stone was ever used. I marked a grid and worked on flattening with a diamond plate. The Sharpie grid lines were gone in under five minutes. This thing was basically flat. I lightly chamfered the edges, there are a couple of small chips typical of flint-like stone. I didn't try to eliminate those.

I'm looking forward to using it the next time I hone my straight razor. I think I'll work up to my coticule as a pre-finisher, then lightly polish the finish on this stone.

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I got rly luck and found this Coticule Combo stone for very cheap in my town. It s very pleasing to the eye ;)
 

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Three merchants on Amazon.com have the NANIWA Hibiki Hard Vitrified IT-0150 Grit-3000 on sale for $48.
 
Would need to see it lapped and wet and hear a sharpening report before speculating on worth. Also I’m not sure how one could be entirely sure it’s nakayama
 
Got a shapton rockstar 320, good stone. Quick soaker, closer to splash and go. Cuts very fast and dark grey slurry quickly on wide bevel, and can flatten very convex wide bevels. Compared to shapton glass 500, yeah faster and a little softer. Good stone, can recommend alongside cerax 320, would probably pick up another one of these over the cerax though. Feels slightly porous. Can feel loose grit immediately, but doesn't overwhelm and prevent cutting. Hasn't glazed yet. Loose grit as part of the slurry, so dark dark grey but not black like a harder stone. I would call it a medium hard stone. Not dishy but dishes slow, slower than gesshin 400, dishes faster than shapton glass 500. My first thought was it acts like a great hard medium coarse aoto. Good sharpening feedback, and ease of deburring. Grit particles seem sorta fine but sharp. Interesting stone. Prefer it to the suehiro debado I had tried in similar grit, the shapton is firmer and faster for the examples I tried, not overly squishy or rubbery. Tested on a double bevel deba
 
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