u/Argg1618

Unknown mine Asagi with suita slurry and kiita slurry. Finished under running water. Keen and smooth edges

8x1.5 size. A nice narrow hone

Some diversity going on here😂 Anats, jnats, and a euro rock.

1. Fine Washita
2. Fast cutting Coticule unknown type
3. Aiiwatani Kiita
4. Vermont Slate
5. A very old translucent

Looks like Grey camouflage

From u/sophie_0323

Making room in my collection.
$150 each
$250 both
Both are harder finer variety of washita
Degreased to user grade condition and meticulously lapped. Both are 8x2
Pic 1-7 stone 1
Pic 8-14 stone 2
Feel free to ask me questions.

A kiita and a suita

Oil on BBW.

I had to get back these two old coticules from a buddy of mine. They are kind of thin on the coticule side, but I will still have a life of BBW left. One is a natural combo. One is a coti glued on BBW, separated, never glued back until today.
Both mating surfaces were lapped and epoxied back together, and lapped all around.
Inspired by u/On_to_the_Next, I had to steal them back

Flat lapping a piece of history. Using this to finish razors.

Quick degrease and boil,
gets out some old oil.

What the title says

Another one.

An A.B. Salmen No.1 quality Hard Arkansas. Oddly enough it has the best surface of any translucent I've ever seen. No inclusions or surface spots that I have on my other hard arks. I can see being advertised for jewelers being a thing now. Seems so far to be the finest most perfect surface of any of my hard arks.

I have never seen an A.B. Salmen Arkansas stone of any kind.

An Aiiwatani Kiita San

What a lovely shape grind!

These are constantly lapped on a 220 diamond plate or 220 W/D sandpaper. Natural stones "Arkansas stones" I use to sharpen knives, woodworking tools and straight razors

I love rocks and lapping things too.....but a little different. I collect natural sharpening stones.
My biggest hobby is sharpening/honing blades and cutting edges. I sharpen on natural sharpening stones mined here in the USA.
Arkansas stones.
Part of that hobby is constantly lapping stones flat.
I also buy used old natural stones, clean and lap them flat again.

Everything Maple minus bottom of box(poplar....ran out of wood)
All corners mitered
Miter Joints cut with miter saw and nailed together
Joint on the bottom cut on a table saw
Chisels for mortising the hinges
Random color stain plus 3 coats of poly
Can't say I'm proud of it but it's a project I use for storing random stuff.

Another shot indoors.
When I first started using these stones, I couldn't find much videos or pictures to help me figure out what kind of a polish I could expect from these stones. This was done with a vintage washita and translucent Arkansas. I hope you all can enjoy this 3 part post