Kind of a hard question to answer. The honing experience will be very different. The edges will be a little different. How much different depends on a lot of factors, though.Slight derail
I have a Black Shadow (slate), so I am guessing that there would not be sufficient difference to warrant looking at one of Dan's arks as a finisher?
It just depends on whether or not you'll be able to give into temptation regarding finding out yourself. Not to be an enabler or anything, but you'll never know unless you try, will ya??Slight derail
I have a Black Shadow (slate), so I am guessing that there would not be sufficient difference to warrant looking at one of Dan's arks as a finisher?
It just depends on whether or not you'll be able to give into temptation regarding finding out yourself. Not to be an enabler or anything, but you'll never know unless you try, will ya??
Slight derail
I have a Black Shadow (slate), so I am guessing that there would not be sufficient difference to warrant looking at one of Dan's arks as a finisher?
Thanks: that is really helpful. I'll continue my journey with the BS, and perhaps in the new year look at an ark.
Surprised to hear this. The 70’s-80’s era Nortons are spectacular stones from my experience.
.If it makes you feel any better that "ark bandwagon" has been astounding for 200 years and is global since they were commercially exploited. They were the choice for dentists, surgeons, barbers, engravers, leather workers, carpenters...... you get the point. I've heard that even in Japan many knife makers and carpenters consider them to be the absolute best finishing stone, and that's not an uncommon thought around the world.I'm a bit wary about jumping on the current Ark bandwagon. I'm still learning the peculiarities of the Black Shadow, so am in no hurry. Also, I'm halfway through November GRUME so this is all strictly theoretical!
I was completely unaware that his stock was quarried before the green label norton hard Arks. It make perfect sense though because of the dozens of Arks I have around here, Dan's are the only ones that compare to old Norton or pike hard Arks.Good point! Great vintage stones are great and just OK vintage stones are just OK.
Another thing to keep in mind is that Dan's stones are about 50 years older than a vintage Norton from the 1950s - 350 million years old plus 50 years
I didn't take it as such in any way friend, I was making a joke. I haven't paid attention as much the last couple weeks but when I first started the forum Arks, coticules, thuringians and jnats were the rage, and they still are. People get enthusiastic over the functional pieces of history we use frequently, especially their favorite stones. Ark lovers LOVE Arks. Coticule lovers LOVE coticules. Coticule>ark fans many times will use nothing else(understandably). Take @cotedupy for example... he LOVES Belgian blue stones on knives. Advocates for them all the time. You'd have trouble finding a handful of people here that feel as enthusiastic about those rocks. He converted me on them though and every claim made was spot on. Sometimes I catch several of us rock nerds coming off "shill-like" but because I know the people I can tell it's enthusiasm. Even me, several times I've read a post and though "they're going to think I've got a razor rock store!". I'm sure there are people here who shill their high quality rocks(which is fine) and those who ship low quality rocks here(not cool, get a booth at the county fair) but once I got to know many of these guys it became very easy to tell the difference.
