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I recently bought a water stone from Woodcraft. It's a Chinese water stone rather than a Japanese water stone. It's 8x2.75x1.25 in. Medium, gray in color & 1200 plus grit. A Japanese stone in this grit is a medium fine stone. This stone is somewhere between a hard Arkansas & a black Arkansas. Japanese stones are manmade. This is a" natural polishing stone quarried in the Guangxi province of China." Seems like a good finishing stone, so far. If anybody has any info on this type of stone, I would appreciate anything you can tell me. Really wasn't a bad buy at $30.00.
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My dad has one he uses to sharpen his hand planes with...he uses it right before going to his finest polishing stone. A lot of the time, if the plane isn't too dull, he just starts out with that stone and moves on to the gold stone after that! Bob |
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Thanks Bob. Appreciate the info.
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