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Arkansas Love...Let's see those Arks!
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12x6x 1 vintage soft ark.
Finally got to try my new Arks, Soft / Hard / SB and finished on Dan's Hard Black. Took my Koraat to a HHT4. Took a wile to get there bet a great shave non the less.
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Do you have to pay property tax on that in Arkansas?
Nice setup! Very impressive!Finally got to try my new Arks, Soft / Hard / SB and finished on Dan's Hard Black. Took my Koraat to a HHT4. Took a wile to get there bet a great shave non the less.
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My small collection. Stone on left is a great bevel setter. Stones on right - finishers.
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Nice stones. Don’t think I’ve ever seen that Washita label before
Me either. Looks like a Norton Competitor took their label and removed anything they could get sued for.
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It looks like a fairly clean break. I’d try to glue that one back together and get it back in use.
I've got a stone with a similar break. Any Idea the best glue to use?
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CA is my go to for non-porous stones but I don’t know how it would work on a Washita. Maybe a waterproof epoxy?
Medium Ca works good! I did it 4 or 5 years ago to a washita. Still going strong! Never seen that label either, cool thanks for sharing.
I used a mix of Gel and liquid CA... I'll let yall know how it turns out. Now I need to modify a base to fit it nice and snug.
And after 20 minutes of grinding that would’ve been five seconds of chiseling if I knew where any chisels were... I got it jammed into a base and gave the top a quick lap and I’ll give it a trial later today.
It might wind up as a gift to a buddy of mine who wants to buy his first set of decent knives and when I told him that he would need to get a stone claimed he was all right because he had a V-sharpener
It might wind up as a gift to a buddy of mine who wants to buy his first set of decent knives and when I told him that he would need to get a stone claimed he was all right because he had a V-sharpener
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I can feel the change in texture where the CA is bridging the gap with my fingertip, it doesn't catch a nail though so here's hoping it wont catch a knife edge either.
Touched a knife up on it real quick and then chamfered those banged up edges. It’s very fast and cuts the annoyingly hard steel on some cheap stamped stainless Chinese knife my wife owns Quite well. Definitely if the “soft” variety of washita. Should work great.
Bought and soaked this awhile back. Put it on my shelf figuring ugly Washita and went to use it today... then lapped it. I think it's actually a really ugly "hard" ark. Good lord it's been awhile since I've lapped one of these. Made me feel old.
As you can probably see there's still a small patch in the center I didn't quite get to... a job for another day.
As you can probably see there's still a small patch in the center I didn't quite get to... a job for another day.
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Looks more like a Washita than an ugly hard ark to me
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Lapping that 12x3 Norton gave me tennis elbow. Seriously. I had an MRI done yesterday. lol
Could be, but I doubt it's a real Washita... maybe one of the modern "Washita". It's hard as hell and doesn't cut like a Washita. Reminds me of the "hard" Arkansas' in the knock-off three stone sets like this: (SMITH'S VINTAGE TRI-HONE 3 STONE SHARPENER ARKANSAS OB WOOD W/STAND KNIFE TOOL * | #347567903 - https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/smiths-vintage-tri-hone-stone-27567903)
Luckily my other Ugly one turned out to be really nice. Very much like my 10" unlabeled. Fast, even gritted... everything good about a LWW except it's not pretty.
Nothing else soft and unlabeled though... just that broken one... might have to keep it for myself. Even Gritted Softies aren't that easy to find. I've sold too many.
Honestly, at that size, I'd probably have not bothered unless it was miles out of flat. That or rent one of those floor strippers they use to refinish hardwood.
I wonder if grade #2's and below had hard spots like some of these lesser ones, or if they're stones that were sold by other makers and wouldn't have been marketed by Norton.
Luckily my other Ugly one turned out to be really nice. Very much like my 10" unlabeled. Fast, even gritted... everything good about a LWW except it's not pretty.
Nothing else soft and unlabeled though... just that broken one... might have to keep it for myself. Even Gritted Softies aren't that easy to find. I've sold too many.
Honestly, at that size, I'd probably have not bothered unless it was miles out of flat. That or rent one of those floor strippers they use to refinish hardwood.
I wonder if grade #2's and below had hard spots like some of these lesser ones, or if they're stones that were sold by other makers and wouldn't have been marketed by Norton.
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